Vol. 5, No. 4, 1999 Page 8 |
QUOTABLE:
William Raspberry
“[B]rain imaging technology... raises a slew of questions we’ve not contemplated before, including this one: If there are provable physical predispositions to certain antisocial behaviors, can the person who misbehaves ever be considered fully responsible
e
e? And if we learn to fix the brains of these poor souls, should we then commute their punishment?
“The questions are nearly as much philosophical--even religious--as legal. And the more we learn the harder they’ll get.”
William Raspberry in
“Blaming the Brain,”
Washington Post,
July 23,1999