bobevenson wrote:All life forms on Earth are related. Every plant and animal has a common ancestor. Killing is as natural to mankind as it is to every other organism. Swat a fly, kill a relative. Take an antibiotic, kill a million relatives. What's so terrible about killing, you find it everywhere. Even Venus flytraps do it.
And now you've forgotten that you were talking about EVOLUTION, which is change over TIME.
Throughout billions of years of evolution, the primary motivational force has been kill, kill, kill, reaching its exhilarating climax in 1945 at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Evolution is all about becoming, only you seem to be concerned, with what has been. I'm sorry that you seem to be incapable of seeing your way into the future.
And why would you want to play with some guy's balls anyway?
Grockel wrote:The purpose of prison is to reform criminals, however this is not always possible. Many criminals repeatedly break the law and are undeterred by the prospect of punishment. There are several factors believed to contribute to criminal behavior, one important factor being high testosterone levels. It has been proven that testosterone is linked to aggression, in 1990 James Dabbs studied 4,462 men and concluded that "the overall picture among the high-testosterone men is one of delinquency, substance abuse and a tendency toward excess." Even in women, Dabbs found high testosterone levels were related to crimes of unprovoked violence. Statistically men commit significantly more crimes than women, specifically violent crimes.
We know that castration can drastically alter an animals behavior, most notably by reducing sex drive and aggression. Not all aggression is caused by testosterone, however the University of California found that in 60% of dogs aggression could be treated with castration. Castration also causes sterility which, considering the inability of prisoners to raise their children, may be an added bonus.
Violent criminals destroy their lives and the lives of others, is society not morally obliged to save them from themselves via castration?
If you advocate castration for high testosterone levels then you would have to castrate 90% of soldiers, stock brokers and politicians.
law provides to dish out punishment FOR a crime. Is it s crime to have high testosterone?
What about non violent criminals. Why not cut off people's feet for traffic crimes; remove hands of thieves; and emasculate adulterers?
As an added bonus you could cut the fingers off morons who type trash into Philosophy Now threads.
