Comments on: What if someone wanted to remove a part of your brain? http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/02/28/what-if-someone-wanted-to-remove-a-part-of-your-brain/ The thoughts of an Aspie on Technology, Politics, and Everything. - The Answer isn't always 42. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:13:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Computer Repair in Lincoln Nebraska http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/02/28/what-if-someone-wanted-to-remove-a-part-of-your-brain/#comment-20 Computer Repair in Lincoln Nebraska Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:32:24 +0000 http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/02/28/what-if-someone-wanted-to-remove-a-part-of-your-brain/#comment-20 So following your logic, is it imoral to sentance habitual child molesters to take a sexual inhibitor drug? Is the court interfearing with their homan right to procreate? So following your logic, is it imoral to sentance habitual child molesters to take a sexual inhibitor drug?

Is the court interfearing with their homan right to procreate?

]]> By: Ryvaken http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/02/28/what-if-someone-wanted-to-remove-a-part-of-your-brain/#comment-21 Ryvaken Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:36:16 +0000 http://blog.joshtheaspie.com/2007/02/28/what-if-someone-wanted-to-remove-a-part-of-your-brain/#comment-21 To protect the liberty of the many, we compromise the liberty of the few. This is the nature of prison. However, this sort of proposal goes past punishment and says that the subject is not a person, endowed with the rights and privileges guaranteed by the Constitution, but rather an organic machine with a defect that needs to be fixed. And the moment you allow that kind of a distinction, the moment you classify THEM as subhuman, we have entered the same mentality that has caused the most heinous acts of violence in the history of human civilization. To protect the liberty of the many, we compromise the liberty of the few. This is the nature of prison.

However, this sort of proposal goes past punishment and says that the subject is not a person, endowed with the rights and privileges guaranteed by the Constitution, but rather an organic machine with a defect that needs to be fixed. And the moment you allow that kind of a distinction, the moment you classify THEM as subhuman, we have entered the same mentality that has caused the most heinous acts of violence in the history of human civilization.

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