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Classical Criminology and Human Nature

accountability for the evils Unfortunately, the sad to cure anything and a “di-

people do. While others state of affairs slants in agnosis” to excuse horren- F
may sternly disagree with the direction that colludes dous and torturous behav- O
this perspective, as vari- a sleight of hand, in the iors. Whether pontificating R

ous fields of pseudosci- never-ending deceptions about a perpetrator’s up- G
ence might assert, people of human behavior. Un- bringing, bad parenting, E

makes choices, both good evolved and self-centered neighborhood, poverty of R
and evil. In the decision- motivations promulgate “broken windows”, and Y
making process, cost ver- the easy mitigations of un- any other externality of

sus benefit is elemental. scientific conjecture that “cause and effect”, the D
What really matters is fosters intentional gullibil- majority of contemporary E

whether the individual is ity in deterministic sim- explanations do not solve C
transforming by becoming plicity. From academia to the crisis of a faltering E
a more differentiated and commercial and political global civilization. Several P

mature personality. oligarchies of power and noted physicists and futur- T
control, for the satiation ist have asserted the even- I

Self-evolving individual- of economic self-interests, tual demise of the human O
ity requires the courage careers and industries species. Nonetheless, we N
of personal liberation for have been constructed come up with excuses to

one’s thinking processes, around the psychobabbles blame someone or some- L
in pursuit of a higher as- of misdirection. While thing. I

cendency for thought and tacitly, behind the scenes, E
action. Maturity assumes some might decry the fla- However, we have “ex- S
a profound growth in re- grant and unjustified fal- perts” that frequently

sponsibility for personal lacies that sell hasty gen- appear alongside smugly
choices and subsequent eralizations reinforced by self-righteous newscasters,

behaviors. An evolving emotion reactivity, change and explain the alleged
individual is labors dili- is futile. mitigating factors, from
gently for selfless personal assassinations to genocide,

growth. For him or her, Too late, the devolution and commercial fraud to
the personal quest spans a process continues a re- political corruption. The

lifetime. From grown up gression of the human fascinating prospect about
thinking processes, he or species into the macabre most “experts”, especially
she embraces accountabil- anti-thinking of arrogant in the so-called hallowed

ity for the responsibility of selfishness. There is an ex- halls of academia, is that
personal transformation. cuse for everything, a pill they never actually were

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