Juanis Chanis said...
i guess the question is...why is it excuseable just because it's a biological process? After all, the end result is the same, and shouldn't that be the basis for our criminal justice system? If it's happened once, it could happen again, after all. And just because we can observe the biological processes doesn't mean that it wasn't the perpetrators' fault...
At issue is the question: can we hold someone responsible for, an event over which they had no control?
This question is at the heart of Christianity. Sin, we are told, entered the world through one man. Through his action we are all dead to sin. And many people are never given the chance to repent of their sins or turn to Christ, and yet ane damned.
But we don't like that idea. In, "not guilty by reason of insanity" is a valid plea in a court of law.
Besides all this, what should we do when we can figure out that someone has a biological predilection to murder before they actually murder someone? Should we take preventative measures & lock them up?
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uuuu, shades of "minority report." maybe not biological predilections, but certainly if the person has proven that they are a murderer, they should be locked up, crazy or no. I don't know, i think that people should accept the consequences of their decisions, whether they made them in a moment of emotional instability or not.
I agree with you, my point is that this is an issue that is going to become more + more important
Referring back to our evolution discussion...Adam means "man," quite simply. Could this be a illustrative story showing the choice we all make as regards to sin? In this case, the consequences of our fallen nature, which includes biological perdilections to certain crimes is our own resposibility. The heart of Pharoah is hardened in the coursed it has set for itself. It is God who softens.
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