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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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You don't decide who your parents are, what country you live in or how much money you have. Everyone can't just move into a different environment. Anyway for the first 18 years of your life, the most important developmental time, you have no control over where you live(your parents decided that), the things you learn(school or parents decide what information you get) or the people you interact with (you can't help what neighborhood you live in or what school you go to).
It's not that simple. Do you know what trisomy 23, XYY means, right? It is significant. They can't help that their mom or dad's didn't perform oogenesis or spermatogenises correctly. Nondisjunction isn't their fault. The point about the chromosones is that they have more testoterone(sp?).
They've done research about identical twins seperated at birth and how similar they ended up being so similiar after being in similar financial and adult support situations.
It's not between nurture or nature. It's a mix of both but, no one has control over.