What Even Is Justice? with Amanda Knox
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The Uncontrollable Urge to Kill People
"I have this uncontrollable urge to kill people and I don't know why it's beyond me to stop this impulse anymore. Please examine my body," a man writes on the internet. "He had this tumor pressing down on his amygdala that was like forcing him to feel this impulse to kill, otherwise if he had a perfectly healthy brain,. he wouldn't have felt that." The only difference is that the tumor itself is an obvious thing that we can pinpoint - for the other person, we just don't know enough about the brain in order to identify what is going wrong there", she says.
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