Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said so-called chemical castration would be used in 20 prisons in two regions and that she was considering making it mandatory.

    • I disagree. Actions are regulated by the areas of the brain directly responsible for just that. I may have had a different opinion when my understanding of how our decision making actually functions was less informed, but it definitely IS an impulse not being controlled. There is no other mystical moral ingredient that you can shoehorn into the equation. Free will is nonsense and attempting to discourage people through threats of punishment doesn’t work. My own half brother was a repeat offending criminal and NO amount of consequences ever stopped him and now he’s dead from his own lack of impulse control. I think it’s exactly accurate to describe any behavior in functional terms.