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To: Ilaine who wrote (36536)	8/29/1999 2:47:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Dangerous thoughts? Not at all! Where neurotransmitters are concerned, we only discovered them about a decade ago. Medications like Prozac that attempt to restore neurotransmitter imbalance are still crude beginning-stage experiments. With time, and more research, we should be able to come up with much more sophisticated medications & techniques. So I can see the day when much "criminality" can be cured -- or at least curbed -- through medical means. I think that would be a vast improvement over the present situation. At the same time, I think that a low serotonin level could as easily be the effect of circumstances as of basic genetic makeup. Take post-traumatic stress syndrome, for example, one of the features of which is a low serotonin level. It is a reaction to real trauma. What could be more traumatic for a young man than to be regularly raped in prison, for example? In fact, I would expect anyone sentenced to prison for any length of time to get depressed... Joan

To: Ilaine who wrote (36536)	8/30/1999 12:35:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 71178

The hyperactive kids got eaten by leopards, lions, cannibals, and Vikings, or got slapped to death by ayatollahs, nuns or puritan divines. Crime and violence among youth are obviously the result of not weeding out the little monsters. It's just a matter of timing.