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Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the blame-it-on-genetics dept.

Noiser writes "New Scientist reports: 'In 2007, Abdelmalek Bayout admitted to stabbing and killing a man and received a sentence of 9 years and 2 months. An appeal court judge in Trieste, Italy, cut Bayout's sentence by a year after finding out he has gene variants linked to aggression.'"

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  1. Not Fair by donnacha · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have a gene variant linked to tickling policemen and, yet, they throw the book at me every time.

  2. Re:Where's the... by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 3, Informative

    Personal responsibility is a pure fiction in a deterministic universe.

    Good thing we don't live in one, then.

    Everything that will ever happen was decided at the time of the Big Bang.
    We just don't have the instruments to predict everything yet.

    Nope. It is impossible, even at the most basic theoretical level, to predict everything. Basic physics theory shows that it is impossible to even just measure everything to an arbitrary degree of precision regardless of what instrumentation you may have. Go back and read your Heisenberg.