Quote: (01-05-2017 03:15 PM)John Michael Kane Wrote:
Blacks are not alone in this, just the worst offenders due to having the worst percentage of single moms in their population subgroup.
It is most definitely a reason, but probably not why you think. We all know every race does things like this, though this kind of violence is also very frequent in South Africa, torture with the sole purpose of rejoicing in suffering. That's a sociopathic crime, where as someone like Breivik or Dylan Roof are more likely to be narcissitic. There's a reason sociopaths usually have a history of animal abuse at a young age. It is not necessarily sadism, but thrillseeking.
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Ferguson (2010) conducted a meta-analysis and found that 56% of the variance in Antisocial Personality Disorder, the formal disorder of sociopathy, can be explained through genetic influences.
Doesn't make one better than the other, but sociopathy is a genetic trait and my theory on why it happens more in some groups than others is due to lack of rule of law in some areas vs others. The European middle ages had a brutal rule of law, no prison, no fines, either corporal punishment, banishment or death. Violent crime was usually punished by death. There was far more low impulse control violence a few hundred years back in Europe.
http://www.historytoday.com/sean-mcglynn...al-england
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Legitimate, judicial violence was deemed essential in the fight to suppress illegitimate, random violence. The monarch, in his role as the supreme judge, was expected to employ whatever violence was necessary in pursuit of social stability and safety for his subjects. Mutilations sent out a message of warning and deterrence; executions offered the ultimate guarantee against repeat offenders.
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The need for governmental action against violent crime was strong. Manor records from England reveal that deaths from manslaughter were far commoner than accidental deaths.
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by the early 1500s estimates would appear to indicate violent crimes running at the annual rate of twenty per 100,000 of population, ten times that of the nineteenth century.
That's my triggering theory which I know will not sit well with many, but I still believe it to be true. Medieval Europe simply snuffed out a lot of the sociopaths from the ages of Vikings and other barbarians who were as brutal and savage regarding violence as anyone. I imagine if you delve into Chinese history or Japanese history you find the same history of harsh corporal punishment in the past.
And then there's the single mother issue, because letting women control their sexuality will lead to selecting for these sociopaths, there was never a womanless sociopath, which means the sociopathic genes replicate.
IKE, saw the same in his work in the penal system, young repeat offenders where he could tell at a young age, these guys would end up committing some kind of violent crime later on due to being sociopathic. He recommends they should be put away for longer and earlier. I know it is triggering, but it is not a racist view, but a civilized one. No one is really served by letting sociopaths roam free.