Posted on 03/11/2015 5:01:04 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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.
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.
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