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Old Oct 22, 2010, 01:19 PM
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Nowadays, we can study such things with advanced instruments and teams of esteemed researchers. There is evidence, a substantial amount, for the proposition that certain structures of the psychopathic brain differ from the norm.
It's good that today, esteemed researchers are always right, unlike the bad old days.

I don't dispute that some brain structures may be different for "psychopaths" than for "normals". I don't have the knowledge to say for certain yes or no. What I am saying is that the facts of differences which we see now are not proof of how the differences originated. They could be partly inherited, and also due to in-utero influences, early childhood, and so on. I think I have enough experience of my own life, and similar feelings, to believe that some, much, most, all can come from those influences upon what may be a base structure that is different from "normal" in some degree. But "normal" is a range, not one point. The given inheritance is not totally determinative.

That is my thinking, anyway.
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