Posts by Neil
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People who have done things like burgling chemist shops or driving with ridicules blood alcohol levels while having small children the car.
I think I see your point. Perphaps this is about identifying and dealing with different personality types and addiction.
Some people respond well to addiction services that cater for people wanting to change and who have the ability to change and in the meantime don’t pose a risk to others.
But there’s people who aren’t like that the may require some form of stricter regime.
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Once someone is explicitly inciting specific acts of mass violence, how much time should be spent in text analysis or (far less reliably) psychological profiling? (Let alone unhelpful speculation about mental disorders.)
I think the idea is to identify predisposed men before they get to the acts of violence. The bit about mental disorders isn’t speculation - the research I linked to is well worth having a look at.
the language of hate groups gets adapted until no longer automatically banned; the algorithm gets adapted to cope
Yes, it’s a type of Red Queen race.
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Legal Beagle: Why the censor's total ban…, in reply to ,
Why would you need to know what mental health issues the man who murdered 50 people has?
As part of understanding why they came to act as they did inorder to develop methods of trying to prevent others doing the same.
Eg, that there are some significant psychological differences between those who act in groups and those that act alone could be an important element in tracking lone actors’ behaviour on the internet.
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The recent RNZ interview with Dr Paul Gill is worth listening to in terms of understanding the lone actor/internet phenomenon.
He doesn’t get round to talking about mental health but from reading some of his research it appears that terrorists who act within a group context have lower incidence of mental disorders than the general public whereas lone actors have a higher prevalence of some particular mental disorders.
The manifestos of Brevik and the Christchurch terrorist could provide insight into any possible mental health issues.
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Hard News: Psychedelic Therapy: an…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Similar brain effects to these have been seen with electroconvulsive therapy.
The 60s gave ECT a bad press. It’s actually a very effective treatment with relatively few side effects.
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He also identifies Labour’s positions on immigration and housing at the last election. I think it should be possible, in principle, to debate immigration policy settings like any others, but something happened during the campaign that impressed on me how easy it is for that debate to spill over into something else.
There’s been no indication that the Prime Minister or Deputy Prime Minister are the least bit interested in addressing how their parties contributed to ethnic divisions.
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Religious bonding provided a community with an advantage over other non-religious communities.
Religion offered a formalisation of codes of conduct.
It’s in part hard-wired and in part absorbed.
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Legal Beagle: Why the censor's total ban…, in reply to Craig Young,
What about a redacted version, summarising but not replicating the content?
I’d opt for the full script minus any references to specific targets and specific techniques.
Picking up on whatever ironic subterfuge being used wouldn’t be possible with a summary.
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Legal Beagle: Why the censor's total ban…, in reply to Sacha,
We do not need access to yet another ‘manifesto’ to understand or ‘challenge’ the positions held by these dangerously inadequate men. It is not a ‘debate’.
I never said it was a debate. It’s strategy of countering their influence. Some men get drawn into very stange beliefs - understanding how that happens I think will be important.
Men have a tendency to nurture grudges, some of them nurture grudges into violent action, some nurture grudges via an elaborate framework which may or may not reach the level of delusion.
If this is about the way social media is magnifying in- group out-group dynamics with some men then understanding how those men perceive that dynamic could be significant. We’ve always had that dynamic as a species, new forms of communication could be taking it into new and more dangerous territory.
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Legal Beagle: Why the censor's total ban…, in reply to ,
You likely read that material well after the damage was done. Bert potters actions apart from abusing children, was to encourage other pedophiles act out.
Potter’s manifesto needed to be dealt to head on. His argument that children only suffered from acts of sexual abuse from adults because sexual abuse was a social construct is not an argument that can be just ignored. That needed to be forcefully challenged publicly at the time. It’s an insidious argument that goes to that heart of how we become what we are and is applied in other ways with unpleasant consequences.
And I think the types of arguments put foward by the likes of Brevik need to be similarly challenged. We are both a migratory and territorial species. How we deal with this source of conflict will be partly about how we deal with the small number of people predisposed to see things in an apocalyptic manner either because they believe it or it’s a device to become infamous.
I also think that the ban implies a misunderstanding of how this form of radicalisation occurs.