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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 1138256, member: 27832&quot;]Not a darn bit, I&#039;d bet. They&#039;re sociopaths. That means the fear of punishment doesn&#039;t exist for them -- their brains aren&#039;t wired for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take a regular person, put electrodes on their fingers, set a timer, and give them a painful shock when it counts down to zero. They&#039;ll start to sweat in anticipation of the shock. Not the sociopath -- even when they <i>know</i> punishment is coming, it has no effect on them. They hate the punishment just as much as anyone else, <i>when it&#039;s happening</i>; it&#039;s just that they&#039;re incapable of <i>learning</i> from it, or letting its inevitability influence their behavior.</p><p><br /></p><p>Locking away a particular sociopath keeps him from doing further damage to society at large. But it does nothing for the ones we haven&#039;t caught yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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