Re:How I Survived a Year in ‘The Hole’ Without Losing My Mind
by Viliam1234 on Sunday October 30, 2022 @04:23PM
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> Are some people just evil?
Probably it is part genetic and part environmental, just like most other human traits.
By the way, the fact that many criminals were abused in childhood has many possible explanations, and it is not obvious which one of them is correct. For example:
* Maybe child abuse causes people to become criminals.
* Maybe there is much more child abuse than we imagine, so a majority of criminals was abused, but also a majority of non-criminals was abused.
* Psychopathy is heritable, which means that most psychopaths also had a psychopath parent, and that is why they were abused.
Probably it is part genetic and part environmental, just like most other human traits.
By the way, the fact that many criminals were abused in childhood has many possible explanations, and it is not obvious which one of them is correct. For example:
* Maybe child abuse causes people to become criminals.
* Maybe there is much more child abuse than we imagine, so a majority of criminals was abused, but also a majority of non-criminals was abused.
* Psychopathy is heritable, which means that most psychopaths also had a psychopath parent, and that is why they were abused.