[Tax-chick]

I’m puzzled that people are disagreeing with Jacoby’s conclusions. If Mr. Bulger were “hard-wired,” then he had no personal agency in has actions, and he bears no personal guilt.

[Chuzzlewit]

very good point there...

I will absolutely see this.

However, on a personal level and this man, I don’t care how nice he was or whether or not he lived by a code, or cried.. big freaking deal.

He was no hero.. He was an evil pr*ck to do what he did and that truly is black and white to me.

Hero? that’s a soldier.. And I love cops, because they take down these evil bast*rds.

.....and God made a liberal..... thought about that video the other day.

[driftless2]

We're all hardwired to do certain things. Humans have natural urges just like other animals. It's just that we've had moral instruction and a bigger brain. I give born killers no slack. Their removal from society is imperative.

Incidentally, I was watching a documentary about the children of Nazi war criminals a few weeks ago. Amon Goeth's daughter was one of the children in the doc.

All the children despised their parents, and a number of them underwent sterilization believing that by doing so, they would eliminate the possibility of future monsters in their families. I happen to believe everybody probably has some bad genetic material.

[exDemMom]

I’m puzzled that people are disagreeing with Jacoby’s conclusions. If Mr. Bulger were “hard-wired,” then he had no personal agency in has actions, and he bears no personal guilt.

There is evidence that psychopaths are born, not made. They really do not have the capacity to empathize with other people. They have no remorse, they feel no guilt. Brain scans show that they are missing the "empathy" regions of their brains.

That said, it is not a foregone conclusion that psychopaths are murderers. To a large degree, how they are socialized as children determines how they behave later on.