[PatrickHenry]

He added that the competitive drive decreases with age and as men's priority shifts from competing for women to taking care of their offspring.

What are we supposed to learn from this? To keep our scientists productive, we should forbid marriage for them? And to slow down our serial murderers, we should encourage them to marry? The result will be a new generation which is fathered by criminals and which has no offspring from scientists.

[Aracelis]

"They do whatever they do in order to get"...(fill in the blank)

Hmmm...plummage?

[longshadow]

The result will be a new generation which is fathered by criminals and which has no offspring from scientists.

Nothing new. It's called: "The United States Congress."

;-)

Or, as Mark Twain put it: "There is no native criminal class in America...... except for Congress."