My brain made me do it!

Writing in the Times, Dalrymple says that while neurocriminology (the analysis of the brain for purposes of preventing crime and punishing and/or rehabilitating criminals) “suggests extermination rather than mercy as the logical response”, it will “paradoxically… serve to increase the very criminal mindset that it aims and claims to detect and prevent”.

Read the essay here (hat tip: Ravi)

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