Dear Spacey, here are finally my announced comments to your Batman slaps Robin meme "How would you change people who like hate and violence" (sorry for the delay, but I have to work for my living):
Haters: men and women
people liking hate a n d violence: mostly men.
There are two major groups:
"cold" hater with violence, and
"hot" haters with violence.
"Cold" haters with violence: so-called "psychopaths" (clinical definition: people who lack empathy and compassion). These people can switch off their "mirror neurons" completely (if you are not familiar with "mirror neurons", please google it). Psychopaths and pedophiles are, in my opinion, probably the most dangerous kind of people on this planet.
Suggest for dealing with psychopaths: I once read the report of a psychologist (I believe he was from Harvard) who exposed his brain to a certain strong magnetic field ans was able by this to switch o f f his mirror neurons, he reported that he watched extremely cruel movies in that state of mind and thought it was funny and only laughed. (I would not be surprised if this information could not be retrieved from the Internet any longer - it would not be the first "politically undesired" information that disappeared from the Internet). Psychpathy is very probably conneceted with a high high skin resistance and can so be detected already in babies - they do this in Mauritius, but I don' t know what they do in Mautirius to treat these babies and prevent that they develop psychopathy, that woudl have to be found out. My proposal for grown-up psychpaths (if you don'tz want to wait tilllthey die): if it's possible to switch off mirror neruons by a magenitc field, it should be possible to switch o n mirror switched off neurons by a magnetic field with the opposite polarization as well, and then force those people to see cruel videos (this could be done in a prison - reminds, of course, of "Clockwork Orange") and repeat this as often as necessary so that they really feel what they are doing when they harm other people (they might need accompanying psychotherapy for that, if they couldn't bear it). The trick would be, of course, to keep the mirror neurons switched on. My guess, give them the reward of feeling love (n o t sex!!!) when they have them switched on, and punish the, when they switch them off. At least the phenomen could be studied in detail like that, and if it were not the solution, one could look out for further ideas (is there a deep traumatization