"Warriors....come out and play-yay...."
Posted on 06/05/2009 1:46:32 PM PDT by LottieDah
Boys who have a so-called "warrior gene" are more likely to join gangs and also more likely to be among the most violent members and to use weapons, a new study finds.
"While gangs typically have been regarded as a sociological phenomenon, our investigation shows that variants of a specific MAOA gene, known as a 'low-activity 3-repeat allele,' play a significant role," said biosocial criminologist Kevin M. Beaver of Florida State University.
In 2006, the controversial warrior gene was implicated in the violence of the indigenous Maori people in New Zealand, a claim that Maori leaders dismissed.
But it's no surprise that genes would be involved in aggression. Aggression is a primal emotion like many others, experts say, and like cooperation, it is part of human nature, something that's passed down genetically. And almost all mammals are aggressive in some way or another, said Craig Kennedy, professor of special education and pediatrics at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, whose research last year suggested that humans crave violence just like they do sex, food or drugs.
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Now this? I just read an article about a group of genetic scientists who claim that diarrhea is hereditary.
Maybe some boys with warrior genes wind up joining the military instead of joining gangs.
Wow.
There is, apparently, a gene for everything.
Still waiting for them to identify the “gay” gene, though.
"Warriors....come out and play-yay...."
“I just read an article about a group of genetic scientists who claim that diarrhea is hereditary.”
There may be something to that. Kids for liberal families do have verbal diarrhea.
Broken link?
I’m encouraging my 7 yo son to become an ice cream taster or play tennis or any other softie thing I can think of. He says he wants to be a Navy Seal, but mom says NO! He says he’ll bring me home souvenirs. I tell him I only want him to bring home HIM!
Does this mean we have to let gang members marry each other?
“Now this? I just read an article about a group of genetic scientists who claim that diarrhea is hereditary.”
We DEFINITELY know that diarrhea of the mouth is hereditary and contagious—most in Congress and the media have it. The only problem is that this disease is coupled with a constipation of ideas!
Oh boy are you going to get an earful. And rightly so.
That's that Y chromosome?
I wonder what gene it is that makes a boy want to become a community organizer. The Thugs gene?
“M’am, your fetus has a ‘warrior gene.’ We have to abort it.”
Where I come from those are not called warrior genes, they are called cojones.
My commie lib ex had me take my son to see “Saving Private Ryan” so that he could see the horror of war. That was ten years ago and he grew up with little influence from me. Well, he’s getting into the SEAL program now.
I suspect this is the aggressive assh-le gene... Gang members don't have what it takes to be warriors.
Does it give them a low sloping forehead, a heavy brow and beady eyes? Did phrenologists have it right after all?
You’ve heard about the planned sequel/remake, right?
Supposedly, Michael Beck will make a return/cameo.
When I was about 8, I decided I would be in the Green Berets, my dad even brought me home a real Green Beret, that fit me, from a friend of his in Vietnam. I did join the service but dad talked me out of the Army, he was Airborne in the Korean war....;)
That was perhaps the most unrealistic NYC movie of that decade.
“I just read an article about a group of genetic scientists who claim that diarrhea is hereditary.”
Yes. It runs in your...
Great movie.
Have they found the liberal/conservative gene yet?
Maybe so, just like Death Wish 3, with its mixed-race gangs. But they’re still cool to watch.
Oh Geez.
I ask my 3.5 year old all the time if he wants to be a Marine or a Soldier when he grows up....
He usually replies a Garbage Truck Driver.....
Is there a gene that causes scientists to rationalize nasty behavior?
In NYC we thought it was a comedy.
Yes, GENETIC! They can’t HELP it. It has nothing to do with absent mothers and fathers, and ever-present gang members all over the block. It just HAPPENS that everyone with the warrior gene lives in the inner cities.
“M’am, your fetus has a ‘warrior gene.’ We have to abort it.”
it’s inextricably wound up in testosterone.
Giggle.....Ya gotta love karma......I hope his mom is proud of him......
My son came out of the womb a warrior.....he is now a Marine......
Yes, it’s called having XX chromosomes and that time of the month. ;-)
> Gang members don’t have what it takes to be warriors.
I beg to differ. You can learn superb leadership skills in a street gang, and you can learn superb teamwork, discipline, strategy and tactics as well. In the absence of a proper outlet for a warrior-in-the-making, a street gang is where they will naturally gravitate toward.
A large number of street gang members in New Zealand grow up and go on to have respectable military careers. A large percentage of those would be Maori — the group that supposedly has the “warrior gene”.
after many thousands of years of waging endless war against members of our own species, it isn’t surprising to me at all that certain traits that are conducive to fighting i.e. warriorr genes are showing up in the genome. I believe that God wants warriors so everything is going according to plan.
Only the ones with very limited intelligence.
reALLY? Which skin color in your opinion is the violent one?
“Warrior gene”?
Is that like the “Gay Gene”?
What the heck is happening with science?
Good grief.
Cookie - do you see a common thread between your son’s ambition and your tag line?
> That was perhaps the most unrealistic NYC movie of that decade.
There’s a good reason for that: the story wasn’t supposed to take place in 1979, but rather some time in the future.
The movie came out at about the same time as Curtis Sliwa was organizing the Guardian Angels in the Bronx. The gang-bangers didn’t dress up in baseball suits and makeup like in “The Warriors” back then, but they were bad enough.
“The Warriors” has got to be one of my favorite movies.
Every boy has a “warrior gene”, but it’s just how much it is encourage or ‘messed’ up along the way!
> You’ve heard about the planned sequel/remake, right?
Jeez, I hope not. No remake I have ever seen has been nearly as good as the original. “The Warriors” cannot be improved upon.
Oh, OK. I knew it was in my blood, somehow.
I know they’ve been trying to do a remake for years, but I have no doubt any remake would suck, it would all be hip-hopped up.
Think again. The DOJ released a report 2 years ago that suggested the number of soldiers with gang ties was several magnitudes larger than previously thought. SoCal police departments and county sheriffs have also been reporting that gang members returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan have been bringing the benefits of their training and experience back to the gangs.
We just sent a nephew off with our best wishes to the Marines. He gets picked up Friday and inducted Monday. Definitely has a warrior gene or two ~
If gang member types are getting in - the standards are too low.
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