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Originally Posted by oojay
So youre explaining how killing is wrong by telling me about chromosomes? And how can you say that one has no control over their environment? If you dont like where you live, move somewhere else. If you dont like your friends, get new ones. You argument holds no weight. Saying killing is wrong by describing how some british scientist thinks people may be pre-disposed to it makes absolutley no sense. And Im forced to say the same thing over and over and again because you dont seem to be comprehending common sense. I guess it comes down to nature vs. nurture (which I assume is what you were trying to get at in so many words). But your DNA is not what determines how one acts, it is determined by their own personality and free will. Im sure that if they screen many who didnt commit violent crimes, then they would find that exact same chromosome in them as well.
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She is pretty much dead right, you know.
Influences are usually a far more determining factor of ones actions than free will. If you come from a domestically violent upbringing than you yourself are more likely to be violent too, free will has close to bugger all to do with it. If freewill over-rode influences than there would be no alcoholics, there would be no drug addicts, there would be no gangsters wasting their lives away for an affiliation they don't even know the meaning of.
It is nature vs nuture, and naturally you act according to how you were nutured.