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Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence
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.'"
Unfortunately here in a number of countries in europe the judiciary has swallowed the liberal rehabilitation BS hook line and sinker. They and the politicians seem to believe that criminals are all just misunderstood little angels who if only given a chance would shine and all become rocket scientists or whatever pathetic fucking fantasy they have in mind this week. Punishment is seen as a dirty word by this liberal elite and so we get these sorts of absurd situations and if they can blame the scums behaviour on his genetics then even more reason not to give him some nasty punishment. Its not his fault after all, right?
Its a prime example of the state completely ignoring the wishes of the people.
What a single round of .45 ACP JHP in the back of the head would do to his genetic makeup?
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
No, genetics needs to stay out of law and courts and people need to be punished for things that they do. It is hilariously disgusting to watch wannabe atheists trivializing existence because they don't believe in a god. Nothing wrong with being atheist but this blatant disregard for the reality of the human situation is sickening and you can spew shit from your mouth all day about how we are only chemical computers but both you and I know that our existence is true (whatever that implies) and our feelings and central nervous system exist and that for whatever reason we are important and relevant even if not universally.
We need to continue to see ourselves as living, conscious creatures. Trivializing our existence into firing neurons and randomness doesn't lead us anywhere and when a person is looked at on his genetic level it is like missing a forest for the trees. It is thinly veiled eugenics and just as worthless and serves no purpose in a court of law. We need to see people as people (the whole package) and no matter how much science helps us understand ourselves in a scientific way, we should not change our perceptions of existence. Science isn't trying to explain away existence it is trying to explain how it works. Taking it out of context to act like we are all irrelevant because we are defined by genetics is so incredibly ignorant and sophomoric it is sad.