Luisa and Keiran on free will, and the consequences of never feeling enduring guilt or shame
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The Nature of the Death Penalty
When I read Sam Harris's book, Free Will short book, and he was making basically the exact case that I was making serial killers. And immediately just make perfect sense to me. Does it make sense? Oh, this is just absolutely true. He gives an example of Charles Whitman, who was known as the clock tower killer. They found that he had a tumor that was pressing into his amygdala,. which was exactly the kind of place that you would expect someone to have done this sort of thing. It wasn't Charles Whitman doing this. It was Charles Whitman plus this tumor. Plus the tumor. Yeah. That has big implications.
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