Friday, March 12, 2004

USC Study Finds Faulty Wiring In Psychopaths

Studies have found consistent brain abnormalities in psychopaths. This may call into question the usefulness of incarceration and/or treatments for many that fall afoul of the law. No amount of consequences or therapy will remove the fundamental abnormalities in these structures. As a society we may have to decide what to do with people who are not necessarily bad in a moral sense but who will always be destructive and dangerous.

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