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I think that will be true if meaningful rewiring of someone's brain becomes possible. One of the reasons these types of aberrant behaviors aren't "treated" is t

I think that will be true if meaningful rewiring of someone's brain becomes possible. One of the reasons these types of aberrant behaviors aren't "treated" is that no such treatment exists. (I know interventions can be made that have predictably positive aggregate effects, but it is certainly not true at present that you can take any individual and therapy them into a moral, law-abiding person.)

sirsinsalot 4y ago
There's plenty of things assumed untreatable 50 years ago which are common place to treat now. What's your point? We also used to treat "female hysteria" with sexual abuse and orgasms, homosexuality with castration, and so on. Also not everything is immediately structural. Someone who kills because they've been indoctrinated to hate women by the incel movement isn't the same as the person with a head injury who struggles to control anger and a lack of empathy. I'd argue neither are punishable, but treated either with a view to rectify or to at least give the poor soul a dignified restriction from being able to act freely. Granted there will be plenty of people you can't treat, that doesn't make them any less poorly.