"I Don't Like Mondays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" is a great way to start this blog. Simply because tomorrow is Monday and I don't like it.
However, this song, sung by UK band Boomtown Rats and written by Bob Geldof, is quite controversial in its happy sing-song nature. At first i could not decipher the meaning within the lyrics of the song, but after I did some research on the background, i was enlightened. Enlightened is quite a weird way to put it though.
Say we defined the first verse of this song and the most repeated verse of this song.
"The silicon switch inside her head
gets switched to overload."
"Tell me why
I don't like Mondays"
Here the Geldof talks about how a switch goes of inside this girl's head. She goes nuts, an has lost her sense.
This girl, apparently of 16 years of age by the name of Brenda Ann Spencer, didn't like Mondays. So to make the day a bit more "lively" she went up to the local elementary school and started a shoot out. This resulted in the death of 2 adults, and the injury of 8 children and a police officer.
Why did she do such a despicable act of violence? Simply because she thought Mondays were boring, and that this would make things different than the usual boring day. No other reason at all. We can compare her to Raskolnikov (Ras*) from Crime and Punishment. Ras* murders the old pawnbroker lady simply because he thought society would be better without her. For something so simple both of these 2 people committed murder of (ironically) 2 people. On the other hand Brenda here did not feel any remorse for her crime. Ras* however went totally psycho over trying to redeem himself. He constantly argued whether or not he should turn himself in and take the punishment or bear the crime on his own shoulders. He unlike Brenda, had mental issues.
Certain psychologist, scientists, and neurologist have been going around conducting research based on their idea that brain scans reveal the mind of a criminal. They point out that brains of certain individuals that conduct certain acts of crime, are different than the brains of the rest of the population. The say that people with a condition called the antisocial personality disorder typically do not care for right and wrong. This they may violate the law and the rights of others. It is not to say that they don't know the law, but they just don't have a feeling for it or for right and wrong.
Neurologist say that psychopaths have a deformation in a part of their brain. That part of the brain controls emotion, and psychopaths lack emotion, empathy, and guilt.
Thus is the case of Brenda Ann Spencer. She did not feel empathy, guilt, or emotion when committing crime. She just felt like it, because it would make the day better.
"Because the brain of a psychopath is compromised, Adriane Raine said,one could argue that they don't have full responsibility for their actions. That - in effect - it's not their fault.
Researcher have used this idea prove their point but also add that...
"Imaging was used...to reduce his responsibility. Yet is that not a slippery slope to Armageddon where there's no responsibility in society?"
Would this be valid in society? Brain scans to determine whether or not one is a psychopath, and if they are, to take social responsibility in amending that fault to make sure that that person maintains what we call civility. It's not like they can control how their brains turn out... *coughFATEcough*. We can't really blame them for that.
I really don't know about these things, but then again, god knows what the government does on it's own.
In the end, i'm pretty sure it has it's own agenda for criminals.
Last but not least we have The Minority Report!!!! Minority Report!!!! Minority Report!!!! Extra Extra Read All About it!!!
Future, Time, psychics with no lives!!!! Here is the minority report of a society where there is no wrong because all that is wrong is wrung out, caught, and punished before the wrong even takes place.
What a world it would be if crime could be predicted and stopped. However, doesn't that also mean that we have lost free will over to sum psychics (Precogs) and computers who may or may not be correct about what we may plan to do in the future. In the end we are punished severely of the crime we might never even would have committed.
Here in the society of The Minority Report the idea of Precrime is where a groupe of Precog (psychic) mutatants predict a series of reports which are then deciphered by a computer to see which of the reports correlate, and then assumes that those two (the majority report) represent what is to occur in the future. Then the ones accused to commit that crime are punished.
This however can be considered controversial. If one has not committed a crime then why should one be punished for it? On the other hand, it has been stated that Precrime has dropped crime by approximately 99.8%. It works but also against the free will of others.
If you think about it its like saying non-criminals are being punished because they are criminals in the future. Even though they haven't done anything yet, they are being prevented from doing whatever it is they would have done that would have been crime. Whew...thats a lot of deep stuff. Quite a brain puzzler time and stuff is....
All in all Criminal activity is thoroughly researched to decrease it. There are no real applicable ethical and morally sound solutions yet though. For that we must wait. Until then ....this is the Extra Extra Minority Report ...Signing out...
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