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To: ek_hornbeck

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.


30 posted on 03/11/2015 11:33:12 AM PDT by IamConservative (If fighting fire with fire is a good idea, why do the pros use water?)
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To: IamConservative
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

The playing with fire and torturing animals part isn't evidence for nurture, it's just evidence for the early stages of the same psychopathic behavior as the later serial killing.

It's true that many serial killers were severely abused and/or neglected as children. However, the fact that the overwhelming majority of people who were abused or neglected as kids don't grow up to be serial killers or other psychopathic criminals suggests that there's more going on than just a bad environment. Also, not all serial killers were abused as children, as I recall, Jeffrey Dahmer had emotionally distant and divorced parents but he was never abused in any way.

31 posted on 03/11/2015 11:38:56 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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