Is Incarceration Better than Neurointervention? On the Intended Harms of Prison

摘要

In “Punishing Intentions and Neurointerventions”, Birks and Buyx (2018) provide a novel argument on why the use of mandatory neurointerventions on convicted criminals is morally objectionable “in a respect that incarceration is not” (133). Current proposed neurointerventions, such as the use of serotonin to reduce aggression, are morally objectionable for the following four reasons.