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In reply to the discussion: If possible, would you support a brain scan warrant? [View all]malthaussen
(17,195 posts)Mental science is far from an exact science in the first place. "Psychopath" and "sociopath" are bandied around every time somebody does something cruel (for some reason or other, we have dispensed with the concept of "evil." I'd point out that nothing in the definition of psychopath requires that he do violence or harm to anyone, including himself. Yet many who are supposedly in-balance mentally can cause no end of pain.
At any rate, you're changing the subject. You asked if a technique should be enforceable by a warrant, not if some people were bad. My opinions lean quite firmly to the freedom of the will, and I do not consider it demonstrable that some wills are not free because it is impossible to will evil. But just because I have the right to be as nasty or kind as I want, does not mean that society may not penalize or reward me for whatever conduct it finds expedient. Which it will, at pleasure.
-- Mal