Of the many things that the article,story,and song had in common, the one that stood out to me was the lack of free will.The article pretty much stated that criminals are criminals because of abnormalities in the brain(more on that later), not because they necessarily chose to commit crimes. The song was created from news that a girl shot up a school playground and her defense was that she doesn't like Mondays.The act was so senseless that the lyric "The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload" was used to show she must have had some sort of problem in her head; no one would do that if they were "normal". And lastly, the story is about a world where precrime catches criminals before they commit the crime-locking people up out out of their own free will. So you can see where I'm going with this free will thing.I'm going south.
The article was the one I was most interested in.The song while interesting,was just that-a song. It can be put under the creative file. The story also can be put under that file. The article is fact,something that has been created from scientific study and thus, most impacts us. While it was...fascinating I do not personally agree with its contents.First off, the article is very wishy-washy.It states one thing(criminals have abnormalities in their brains that allow them to commit crimes) then states another(it doesn't mean all people with abnormalities will commit crimes) and then finally (criminal behavior is certainly not a fixed behavior). So then what are you saying?It's like me saying, "Bunnies are the best!Of course, not all bunnies are the best.In fact, it's not certain that bunnies are the best". Not that I would ever say that because there is no question:Bunnies are the best.Yes, there is a correlation between people with anomalies in the head and crime.But there is also a correlation with crime and people who are poor,people who are bored,and people who get conditioned to do bad things.There are the same number of people with inherent "problems" as there are normal people who have lived in either a bad environment or have hung out with bad people.The study aims to say that criminals are different from regular people(nature) while what I stated above is all nurture.So I don't really see their case.
Second, the article states that people who have a lack of fear and emotion are the ones who are likely to commit crimes.Now this is certainly not true. Criminals fear the most out of all of us;it's why they are so careful to hide their crimes and why some of them end up paranoid and are constantly looking behind their back (both which are seen with R-cubed in the novel). And,in actuality, emotion is one of the leading causes of crimes."I'm going to hurt you because you cheated on me!" "I'm going to shoot all of you because you made fun of me!" "You stole my Nutella so you must die!". We see this in R-cubed. He acts purely on emotion;his acts have no real logical reason behind them.If he was acting with reason,he would have more carefully committed the act and he would have stolen more goods.
And lastly I don't agree with the article because their findings can lead to a slippery slope. Imagine all the excuses murders will now have to plead their innocence. None of our brains are quite the same;it doesn't mean we can use that as an excuse for our actions. Also the article brings up whether we should test those who have those problems which is cray cray.It relates to the story in that it can never happen.There will always be someone who sues and says that were targeted because of their social standing or their race.So recent study, you're cute and all but I'm going to have to put you with the "do married couples start to look alike?" and "are curvier women smarter?" studies. Aka the crap pile.
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