Are Murderers Born or Made?

BBC News ^ | 3/10/15 | BBC

[ek_hornbeck]

I never said (nor did the article) that environment and behavior plays no role, just that certain people's brains are wired (from birth) in ways that predispose them to types of behavior. The article clearly states that you need a combination of genetic predisposition and childhood stress to make a violent psychopath.

On the other hand, you seem to adopt the extreme position that heredity plays NO role.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

On the other hand, you seem to adopt the extreme position that heredity plays NO role.

That is correct. When it come to the human brain and the human heart we are made, first by others and then by ourselves.

The making of ourselves is the biggest part and why you have some children who come out of dire circumstances helpful and gentle people and other children who come out of what should have been happy circumstances nasty and brutal.

Each has chosen to be what he wants to be.

People tend not to like this answer because it puts everything on themselves. However, it is the answer that fits the facts as known today.

[ek_hornbeck]

The making of ourselves is the biggest part and why you have some children who come out of dire circumstances helpful and gentle people and other children who come out of what should have been happy circumstances nasty and brutal.

If some come out of poverty and abuse as psychopaths and others come out of poverty and abuse as normal people, it strengthens the view that psychopathy is innate and hereditary, rather than a product of your environment. So what you say undermines your view that we're a blank slate and that genetics has nothing to do with the way people turn out.