Re: "crime gene"-was it founs??
From: Anon. (bob.ohara_at_SOD.OFF.Spammers.helsinki.fi)
Date: 08/31/04
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:53:48 +0000 (UTC)
Michael Ragland wrote:
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> Well I hope the vast majority of research on aggression isn't reflective
> of the photogragh on the website representing a mental patient in a
> straight jacket in agony having a doctor poke something in his head in a
> theatre like setting while in the far backrow other researchers sit.
>
Actually, he's using a dropper to drop liquid onto the patient's eyes.
I guess you live in the UK, where the film "A Clockwork Orange" was
banned by Stanley Kubrick. Or you just didn't want to watch it.
[moderator's snark: Wow, why would Stanley ban his own film? - JAH]
On the main discussion, the problem I have is that concepts like
"criminality" and "aggression" are not ones that seem to me to have a
good biological basis. Criminality is social - is there really a gene
for smoking in an Irish bar? And aggression seems to be a catch-all for
a large number of traits: a Friday-night argument outside a bar must
have a very source of aggression from that found in an Olympic sprinter,
or from a soldier defending his country in a war. Lumping them all into
a single category missing a lot of important nuances, and makes it
difficult to isolate causes of different behaviours.
Bob
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