Personally I am a person that likes to give people the benefit of the doubt. I am a true believer in the statement "Innocent until proven guilty". With that being said i feel that it is completely wrong to incarcerate someone on the basis of what crime they may or are likely to commit in some future time. This is where two of the three pieces of prose are similar. The MSNBC article dealing with criminal brain scans, and the short story “The Minority Report" both touch on the topic of prior knowledge of potential criminals, and prevention based on that knowledge. In the short story the people of the society use mutants which have the ability to look two weeks into the future and determine whether a person is going to commit a crime or not. Afterwards the people of the society throw that person in labor camp even though they technically are innocent. The article is very similar; however it is less science fiction. The article covers the idea that criminals or psychopaths often have differences in the brains frontal lobe activity. The article talks about taking steps early to stop children who are foreseen to become criminals. Both the article and the short story depict acts that would be considered a breech of an individuals rights as stated by the constitution. In both cases when you start to throw people under the bus because of "beliefs" then it shows that you don’t have faith in the justice system. With no form of justice or centralized law then a society might as well e considered anarchy. On the idea of how criminals differ from non-criminals or normal people, I think that we are actually very much the same with little exceptions. The only difference with criminals is that they act on their impulses and don’t think rationally when making key decisions. Also they tend to try to rationalize their actions which the song lyrics note with "And he can see no reasons Cos there are no reasons ". Another example of this of this deliberate rationalization is evident in Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, before he commits the murder, looks for signs that would justify his murder of the pawn broker. That search for justification is what makes Raskolnikov and other criminals insane. That is it, that’s the different between psychopaths and normal people. It is very important to look within yourselves and see if you tend to do wrong then try to justify your actions. If you have the Phyco-quality then check yourself because you might be insane. :)
Monday, September 19, 2011
Get out of my head !!!!!
Sitting at home watching Forensic Files, I always wonder why criminals are so stupid. I ponder on the topic of whether they are sane or the extent to which they can be considered insane. It would be interesting to know what goes on in the minds of criminals physically that make them act the way that they do. Fortunately for me I have found that information. It really is interesting because every society has its fair share of criminals, and every society tries to create ways to isolate or remove those criminals from the picture. Recently, the prospect of going back in time and killing those people that caused the death of many innocent people has been looked upon. Many scientist, historians, politicians...etc has debated on the issue of whether it is ethical to kill these people when they are young or before they commit the atrocities towards humanity. In the same way three different pieces of prose have tackled the idea of the criminal mind or the ethics of pre-crime prevention. Let's analyze shall we.
Personally I am a person that likes to give people the benefit of the doubt. I am a true believer in the statement "Innocent until proven guilty". With that being said i feel that it is completely wrong to incarcerate someone on the basis of what crime they may or are likely to commit in some future time. This is where two of the three pieces of prose are similar. The MSNBC article dealing with criminal brain scans, and the short story “The Minority Report" both touch on the topic of prior knowledge of potential criminals, and prevention based on that knowledge. In the short story the people of the society use mutants which have the ability to look two weeks into the future and determine whether a person is going to commit a crime or not. Afterwards the people of the society throw that person in labor camp even though they technically are innocent. The article is very similar; however it is less science fiction. The article covers the idea that criminals or psychopaths often have differences in the brains frontal lobe activity. The article talks about taking steps early to stop children who are foreseen to become criminals. Both the article and the short story depict acts that would be considered a breech of an individuals rights as stated by the constitution. In both cases when you start to throw people under the bus because of "beliefs" then it shows that you don’t have faith in the justice system. With no form of justice or centralized law then a society might as well e considered anarchy. On the idea of how criminals differ from non-criminals or normal people, I think that we are actually very much the same with little exceptions. The only difference with criminals is that they act on their impulses and don’t think rationally when making key decisions. Also they tend to try to rationalize their actions which the song lyrics note with "And he can see no reasons Cos there are no reasons ". Another example of this of this deliberate rationalization is evident in Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, before he commits the murder, looks for signs that would justify his murder of the pawn broker. That search for justification is what makes Raskolnikov and other criminals insane. That is it, that’s the different between psychopaths and normal people. It is very important to look within yourselves and see if you tend to do wrong then try to justify your actions. If you have the Phyco-quality then check yourself because you might be insane. :)
Personally I am a person that likes to give people the benefit of the doubt. I am a true believer in the statement "Innocent until proven guilty". With that being said i feel that it is completely wrong to incarcerate someone on the basis of what crime they may or are likely to commit in some future time. This is where two of the three pieces of prose are similar. The MSNBC article dealing with criminal brain scans, and the short story “The Minority Report" both touch on the topic of prior knowledge of potential criminals, and prevention based on that knowledge. In the short story the people of the society use mutants which have the ability to look two weeks into the future and determine whether a person is going to commit a crime or not. Afterwards the people of the society throw that person in labor camp even though they technically are innocent. The article is very similar; however it is less science fiction. The article covers the idea that criminals or psychopaths often have differences in the brains frontal lobe activity. The article talks about taking steps early to stop children who are foreseen to become criminals. Both the article and the short story depict acts that would be considered a breech of an individuals rights as stated by the constitution. In both cases when you start to throw people under the bus because of "beliefs" then it shows that you don’t have faith in the justice system. With no form of justice or centralized law then a society might as well e considered anarchy. On the idea of how criminals differ from non-criminals or normal people, I think that we are actually very much the same with little exceptions. The only difference with criminals is that they act on their impulses and don’t think rationally when making key decisions. Also they tend to try to rationalize their actions which the song lyrics note with "And he can see no reasons Cos there are no reasons ". Another example of this of this deliberate rationalization is evident in Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, before he commits the murder, looks for signs that would justify his murder of the pawn broker. That search for justification is what makes Raskolnikov and other criminals insane. That is it, that’s the different between psychopaths and normal people. It is very important to look within yourselves and see if you tend to do wrong then try to justify your actions. If you have the Phyco-quality then check yourself because you might be insane. :)
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