I don't know why it seems crazy to you that I would suspect you of arguing in bad faith. That seems like special pleading to me. You assume leftists are arguing in bad faith basically all the time.
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This is your people - the people who think crime is totally just a random personal flaw with no genetic correlation - who did this. What exactly do you think biodeterminists are going to do that's *worse*?
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The only importance genes have had on the legal system so far is that a few criminals have gotten let off because they had genes that predisposed them to crime (see the BBC article linked before for the story).
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I don't think that makes sense, but I'm glad people are finally asking the question "Are criminals just lazy and evil, or might they be fighting a hard battle against tendencies they were born with?"
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I'm not sure it's worth fighting as hard as you are to protect the current system. I'm not sure thinking that everything is just laziness and upbringing is ushering in as beautiful a golden age for the poor and disadvantaged as you think.
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Whatever you think Science's track record is, I'm not sure "random completely false socially accreted prejudice" is that good a source of social progress either.
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If I thought current structure - epistemological, social, criminological - was worth protecting, I'd be more willing to keep quiet about its scientific inaccuracies. But I see mass incarceration, execution of innocents, etc, coexisting with crime rates typical of 3rd World
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The team who figured out the role of lead in criminality and helped reduce lead levels have done ten thousand times more to free the incarcerated and help the poor then every single person condemning Science as problematic over the last century.
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If you want me to shut up about some things that could actually give us the knowledge to fix this in order to protect the current system - then for the love of God, give me something worth protecting.
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