Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-5-2010

[andrewducker]

• Did Tories lean on BBC & C4 to drop PhillipaStroud?
  (tags: tv media uk freespeech law politics)
• Speech by head of Blackwater Security exposed. Clearly not nice people.
  (tags: politics military usa)
• Genetic link to credit card debt
  (tags: debt self-control genetics)
• Painkiller overuse can trigger headaches
  (tags: drugs pain)
• Predator Theory - 28% of rapes are carried out by 4% of the population
  (tags: feminism rape statistics violence misogyny crime)
• Nuns Investigated By Vatican...for feminism.
  (tags: feminism religion catholicism EpicFail)
• Tory support among gays drops to 6%. If someone you know supports Gay Rights and is voting Conservative you may want to have a word...
  (tags: conservatives uk politics gay)

Comments

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

28% of rapes are carried out by 4% of the population. Or, once you factor gender into to, more like 28% of rapes are carried out by 2% of the population.

Begs the question of what other crimes are disproportionately likely to be perpetrated by this 2% of men.

[andrewducker]

Good question:
http://www.hugthemonkey.com/2007/03/paul_zak_oxytoc.html

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

So let's just profile for the psychopaths and sociopaths, then give them the options of being pumped full of drugs, assigned roles killing others of their kind, or just kill them?

Seems a reasoned, modest, greatest good for greatest number (final) solution, no?

[andrewducker]

Well, that depends on whether they can be contained and controlled socially. Generally speaking I'm in favour of not punishing people before they've committed a crime, but I can definitely see a case for it. My main problem would be that that kind of societal behaviour tends to lead to bad places.