I think that if you found, and it would have to be at a much more detailed level of analysis than this guy is talking, but suppose that there is a particular neurotransmitter working in a particular network, it actually causes people to be hateful. You could, I think, develop a drug that targeted that and maybe in the hopes of reducing that. This is all like just totally in principle. But I don't think if you're talking at the level of analysis of like what to do for like public service announcement stuff, it's such a different level of analysis. It's not about responsibility. It's just about adding anything, adding something that would let's say instrumentally get people
Here’s an episode with something for both of us – a healthy serving of Kantian rationalism for David with a dollop of Marxist criminology for Tamler. We discuss and then argue about Jeffrie Murphy’s 1971 paper “Marxism and Retribution.” For Murphy, utilitarianism is non-starter as a theory of punishment because it can’t justify the right of the state to inflict suffering on criminals. Retributivism respects the autonomy of individuals so it can justify punishment in principle – but not in practice, at least not in a capitalist system. So it ends up offering a transcendental sanction of the status quo. We debate the merits of Murphy’s attack on Rawls and social contract theory under capitalism, along with the Marxist analysis of the roots of criminal behavior.
Plus – the headline says it all: Blame The Brain, Not Bolsonaro, For Brazil’s Riots.
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