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Failed criminal justice logic
by Mangar
The criminal justice system will need to continue to fail in the face of cognitive neuroscience, spurring the need for a re-examination of the logic of punishment. Punishment DOES make sense, I sincerely believe, but not because they were motivated by some non-biological immaterial motivation or force. "My brain made me do it" is an irrelevant statement. There is nothing our brains DON'T make us do.
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