Reply #4: Revolutionary!

[Bigmack]

I don't mean the idea that Fetal Alcohol Syndrome causes horrible physical and psychological damage. Enough studies have been done on FAS to fill a stadium.

What's revolutionary is the idea that FAS people may not be able to control their behavior - and thereby commit crimes - because of incurable brain damage before birth. They simply aren't responsible for their actions.

Our prisons are full of FAS people who have committed crimes. I'm not suggesting they be turned loose, but isn't there another way of treating people with severe brain damage who can't control their actions?

In a country that still executes retarded people and generally doesn't believe in science.... a country that's retreating to the religion of the12th century.....I guess there isn't another way.

Perhaps in the civilized world a way can be found to deal with victims of FAS.