[ransomnote]

I watched a Youtube video of a brain researcher explaining that he had found markers in the brains of psychopaths which could be measured. His mother took him aside and told him he was in no position to talk about such things since their own family tree contained a psychopath or two. He researched and found he was indeed related to one more two psychopaths. So he had his own brain imaged and found some markers associated with psychopathy. So the question moved to what environmental element made the difference in his life that he had not become a psychopath.

[hinckley buzzard]

Maybe nothing. Abnormal brain scans, MRI's, eegs, etc are quite common, with no behavioral correlates. There are people walking around and talking who by any medical text book should be vegetables or dead. This problem of false positives is why this cannot be used as a reason for preemptive abortion, detention, or other preventive intervention.

[TheOldLady]

That is a most important and interesting tidbit.

Apparently psychopathology can manifest in different ways, not all destructive. Or perhaps some people have the genes but they are dormant for some reason.

It is always wrong to abort anyone (-life of the mother), and certainly aborting someone because he "might" be a problem person is not only wrong, but also illegal (innocent until proven guilty).