There's often a knee-jerk reaction to these types of studies because they (allegedly) pave the way for the "my genes made me do it" defense in court, but from a legal standpoint, that is no weaker or stronger than the "a bad environment/abusive upbringing made me do it" which has become standard. If anything, studies like this, while acknowledging environmental triggers, focus the blame and responsibility more on the individual criminal than on society.
Doesn't that say environment has a strong influence?
Are people responsible for their actions?
various factors influence attitudes. However, people CHOOSE their actions.
As someone once said, “Evil thoughts are like birds. You cannot stop them flying over your head, but you can stop them from nesting in your hair.”
Thoughts can lead to attitudes which then greatly influence actions.
Or you could say people’s behavior and lifestyle causes changes within the brain.
I think there is a good possibility that killers are born as well. I was reading a story yesterday about a couple whose kid is extremely violent, is obsessed with knives, bleeding and stabbing..Here you can read it.
Well, since no one is a murderer until they murder someone, I’d say there is a strong case for “murderers are made”.
Violent men and women are often easily led.
The worst part about finding something like this to be true, is that Liberals will scream that we must stop treating these poor people as criminals and accept them as they are, after all “they were born that way!”
Hell, we already know this to be true in serial killers - the studies have shown that they started with harming, maiming, and then killing small animals, before finally moving on to hurting and killing humans: Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, etc...!
If I was stuck in a situation where I was forced to live in a crime ridden ghetto I would certainly be packing(legally or not) and it would be up to the cops and the courts to determine if anyone I might kill was murder or self defense.
we name things as well fed people who think we are in a new golden age...
here is a few words from Sultan Knish's Blog:
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-ages-of-purim.html
The illusion of history is that every age brings with it the end of history, a new age whose awesome achievements break with the past and usher in a boundless future. And then the walls come crashing down and the new era of history ends up buried under the rubble of time.
History never ends. That is the lesson of the Holocaust, of Purim and of countless other horrifying intrusions of the old into the new. The shining new era that begins with grand public spectacles and displays of the power and might of an empire, ends with corpses and men and women fighting and running for their lives.
They are born.
The first man born of a woman was a murderer. (Cain)
Related topic, for anyone interested in criminality, Stanton Samenow’s Inside the Criminal Mind. Samenow interviewed convicts in prison and based on what they told him he concluded that criminals commit crime because they want to.
http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Criminal-Mind-Revised-Updated-ebook/dp/B006NKMM5C/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1426078803&sr=8-2&keywords=inside+the+criminal+mind+revised+and+updated+edition
The answer is yes.
If they are born that way (murderers) then we can’t expect them to change. It’s not their fault. It’s God’s fault for creating them that way.
I’ve always believed that at least some people, and especially a lot of serial killers, are just flat out wired wrong. I think a medical study recently confirmed that. But the point is that some people just can’t be rehabbed or ‘fixed’. They are what they are.
Serial killers have a well known profile; childhood abuse, playing with fire and torturing animals. Seems to strongly suggest serial killers are a product of nurture.
Adrian Raine - Fish oil
Spent a lot of time studying his work while working on my PhD
A person does not murder because of differences in his brain, his brain changes after he does murder.