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From: bwk@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Barry W. Kort)
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Subject: Re: Free Will & Self Awareness
Summary: We had to destroy him to save him.
Keywords: Consciousness, Morality, Healing, Debugging
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Date: 24 May 88 19:28:09 GMT
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From: bwk@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Barry W. Kort)
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Subject: Re: Free Will & Self Awareness
Summary: We had to destroy him to save him.
Keywords: Consciousness, Morality, Healing, Debugging
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I appreciated Gordon Banks' commentary on the psychopathic personality.

His article reminded me of the provocative (but depressing) book by
M. Scott Peck, _People of the Lie:  The Hope for Healing Human Evil_.

I'm actually more in favor of banishment than execution.  But I do
believe that healing is a possibility for the future.  But given the
difficulty of driving bugs out of software, I can appreciate the
challenge of expunging demons from the human psyche.

I agree that prison is not an effective environment for learning morality.
It's hard to learn morality and ethics in an environment devoid of role
models.

--Barry Kort