Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (53733)	8/3/2002 1:09:23 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

I do like your style, X. Yes, I think the direction of genetic research is toward discovering that more and more of our behaviors are simply a matter of preprogrammed hard-wiring. Over which we have little control. As more layers of mystery are peeled away, it may ultimately come to the point that none of us are responsible (in any meaningful way) for anything we do. For myself, I could come to the belief that such nature of existence was designed. That would make more sense to me that to believe it is all a big cosmic accident. Now I would be nearing predetermination, that everything that has happened in my life, and where I am now, was all inevitable and predestined. None of this would make me more humane. After all, just as I am not responsible if I decide to hurt you, neither is society (a human creation) responsible for how I am punished. Throwing the switch of the electric chair is just the final act of pre-wired human tendencies and proclivities that produced "law" and compelled invention of such a device for its deadly purpose. Society is the collective us ... and we are not responsible for our barbarity, if that is what it is. I seem to be wired as to want swift and harsh punishment for all violent law-breakers. I've got to go with my flow.