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Humans Are Not Born Good Or Evil


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Mankind has dictated what is considered good and evil. When you are born you are a blank slate with basic genetic traits pre-programmed into us to survive. Sure there are some humans born with abnormal brains that are destined to fail, if born into a lawless wild environment.

Depending on the enviornment you are raised in and the individuals you have social interactions with. Will have a great deal to do with how you will turn out. As far as psychopaths go. The outcome will remain the same as long as the enviornment and interactions stays the same. The only difference between a normal and abnormal brain (psychopath) is that the psychopath can be influenced easier, to commit unlawful acts of violence. Because of there lack thereof.

I also believe that if a child is born with a normal brain. He or she can be taught to be evil over time because of their surroundings and their social interactions.

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"Sure there are some humans born with abnormal brains that are destined to fail"

Your response falls under what I wrote above.

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Just so you realize who you're dealing with:

by whoameye

This should be no surprise to most of you. I have only read one book in my entire life. It was a book about killer whales while I was incarcerated. I didn't have shit else to do.

 Carry on.

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That is true in today's standards. I was speaking if they were born and raised in a lawless wild environment. Like the woods with little to no human interaction. Of course after the mother raised it to live off of the land. Like we did thousands of years ago.

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by Tryptamine

That's not true. If an individual doesn't have enough grey matter in their ventromedial prefrontal cortex, they will be amoral. Couple that with a strong genetic loading for reduced limbic volume and a thickened corpus callosum typical of the psychopathic pattern of brain development, and you have a "born psychopath." Admittedly such persons represent perhaps one half of a full spectrum of people. But point is that the further toward that end you go, the less capable of socialization a person is, until eventually it becomes impossible. The case studies in Hervey Cleckley's book The Mask of Sanity illustrate many great examples of psychopaths who were impossible to socialize despite having ideal upbringings.

 Tryptamine, your reference is rather strong towards "The Mask of Sanity" . Im seriously impressed, but i have something to point out regarding the VMPFC. Im my time as Medical Practitioner , we screened many patients based on clinical signs handed to us by protocol ministry of health Bullshit, but in 6/10 psychopaths ive seen, the answer was a rather obvious one. A CT brain or MRI was often not done. As we do not have these Equipment in the Psychiatric Hospital. But once we bring them to a larger institution which had them i would say, radiologist picked up "focal lesions".  There may be primary and secondary brain injury processes which are rather unaware what caused them. Hence u see the emergency medicine wankers diagnosing these people as "Altered Mental Status" and referring them to Psy hospitals. We see this a lot. Please do take focal lesions in the VMPFC as a cause to alter decision making skills making a rather altered stimulas-response. But nonetheless your response was Spot on.  

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by Turncoat

Just so you realize who you're dealing with:

by whoameye

This should be no surprise to most of you. I have only read one book in my entire life. It was a book about killer whales while I was incarcerated. I didn't have shit else to do.

 Carry on.

 

Just so you know. Turncoat. Has book smarts and NO common sense.

Carry on.

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Oh yeah, I agree it's worth discussion. Mostly saying your attempts at educating the guy might fall on deaf ears (or I guess blind eyes, being a forum and all).


Whoameye: "Just so you know. Turncoat. Has book smarts and NO common sense. Carry on."

Does that make us foils~?

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