AveryJarhman
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That may have been Odium's point, but you can't entirely overlook the genetic propensities for violence or other anti-social behaviors, either. I had a cognitive psych professor who explained it to us this way: when we are born, the circuitry in our brains has lightly indented pathways that, if activated over and over, will become entrenched responses (and resulting behaviors). If we are born into an environment where those pathways are seldom used and other alternative pathways are created, there will be a different result. Those initial pathways, though, definitely exist and if left to their own devices in the right environments, they will lead to certain tendencies in behavior.It's a huge fatal flaw to start looking into genetics to pre-determine a person's threat value or worth.African Americans possess "violence" gene, researchers find
And the actual study for those that want to read it
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1682278/pdf/ajhg00064-0013.pdf
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Of course, it is all more complicated than that, but that's the simple way of explaining it.
Using it to blanket-slam an entire race is not just unfair, even the numbers don't hold up.
Hi, OL. When it comes to raising a child into a fairly well adjusted teen and adult, Dr. Park Dietz offers the bottom line.
Speaking with Mafia hit-man and victim of Early Criminal Childhood Trauma/Abuse Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski, Dr. Park Dietz, MD, MPH, Ph.D, explains why Richard most likely developed into a emotionally disturbed, paranoid, cruel, heartless teen and man largely incapable of embracing the human capacity for compassion, empathy or respect for his peaceful or less fortunate neighbors.
"My mother was cancer, she would destroy *EVERYBODY"* ~'Childhood Trauma' (#ACEs) victim and now-deceased convicted serial murderer, Richard 'The Iceman' Kuklinsky
Peace.