[119199] in Cypherpunks
*** Study: Brain's moral compass found
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Avon)
Tue Oct 19 14:49:43 1999
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From: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 14:23:45 -0400
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NEW YORK (AP) - A key part of the brain's circuitry for learning
moral and social rules lies right behind the forehead, a study
suggests. Antisocial behavior might depend at least in part on
malfunctions in this circuitry, researchers said. But it's too early
to draw conclusions, and the study doesn't mean that all antisocial
behavior can be blamed on damage to this area, said lead author
Steven W. Anderson. The area, called the prefrontal cortex, has long
been known to affect social behavior. Prior studies show that people
who sustain damage to it as adults can start acting irresponsibly. A
happily married man, for example, might take up with prostitutes and
start bouncing checks. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561690371-06b
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Geee! I know a few happily married man who take up with prostitutes and never
had a head injury... I like this move to equate this action to
irresponsibility... Next thing is, they'll make unfaithfullness a crime, like
drunk driving, or what?
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Facing attacks from organ transplant centers and
Congress, the government Monday clarified its regulations aimed at
getting organs to the sickest patients. Organs should not be wasted,
the new rules make clear, by shipping them coast to coast or futilely
transplanting them into very sick patients. But the revised
regulations issued Monday by the Department of Health and Human
Services remain unchanged in fundamental ways: Organs should be given
to the most medically urgent patients first, they say, without regard
to where patients live. And the HHS secretary retains the right to
approve or veto any allocation plan devised by the private contractor
that runs the transplant system. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561685860-c72
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Geee... somebody who has a lot of money, therefore who sells a service or
product that people freely purchases in their best interest, cannot pay a
premium to have priority on an organ? It means that the inventor/owner of a
company who produces medical equipment will be left to die on the table while
the alcoholic hoodlum on social security will get his transplant?
As Ol'Louis used to sing "What a wonderful world!"
Ciao
jfa
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