[gomaaa]

Great subject for a thread sometime! If people cannot control their own emotions, are they responsible for their actions? Should society help them cope? Would such efforts be entitlement programs for freeloaders or investments by society in helping potentially productive citizens? I don't want to get too far off the topic of this thread, but I'll look for some material to start a new discussion elsewhere. Let me know if you guys beat me to it.

[js1138]

If people cannot control their own emotions, are they responsible for their actions? Should society help them cope?

The important question for society is, if some individuals cannot -- due to objectively verifiable brain disorders -- control their behavior, can we allow them freedom, even if they have not yet committed a serious crime? Right now the courts are mixed on this, as they should be, because there is no objective way of predicting threats. But it is a problem.