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The Skeptics Guide #809 - Jan 9 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Is It Ethical to Treat You for Your Psychopathy?

If convicted of a crime and psychological evaluation determines that they have psychopathy, their psychopath, you can spend the rest of your life in jail. Or you could allow us to cure your psychopathy by changing your brain permanently. Is that something that is ethical to even be on the table to rewrite somebody's neurology? "I always want to remind myself that I'm only like one sort of or two bad luck scenarios away from homelessness or away from catastrophe"

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