Are They Asian, Or Are They Not?

Didge wrote:

victorisnotamused wrote:yeah...its not in their blood.....its in their CULTURAL BACKGROUND init

So by your logic, being we have aprox 300,000 child sex offenders and around 25,000 sexual abuse cases to children and 60,000  to 100,000 there must be a cultural problem with sex offending in this country then?

victorisnotamused wrote:

Didge wrote:


So by your logic, being we have aprox 300,000 child sex offenders and around 25,000 sexual abuse cases to children and 60,000  to 100,000 there must be a cultural problem with sex offending in this country then?

not just in this country....

I do happen to think that there may well be a "cultural problem " with white caucasian men" as regards this problem...

It would be interesting to see actuall offending rates acroos the world, broken down by culture rather than ethnicity (since the two dont ALWAYS co-incide)

of course you would have to take account of those countries where such offending is permitted ...or at least has a blind eye turned to it (like I wonder where????) and considered to be nothing out of the ordinary....

victorisnotamused wrote:no didge thats just mixing the mess up to hide its ingredients.....
bcause womn can and are sexual abusers too

women can be rapists

and some of the worst and mos gruesome sexmurders have bee carried out by women

so.........

And that brings us to the next part of Jim Fallon's family experiment. Along with brain scans, Fallon also tested each family member's DNA for genes that are associated with violence. He looked at 12 genes related to aggression and violence and zeroed in on the MAO-A gene (monoamine oxidase A). This gene, which has been the target of considerable research, is also known as the "warrior gene" because it regulates serotonin in the brain. Serotonin affects your mood — think Prozac — and many scientists believe that if you have a certain version of the warrior gene, your brain won't respond to the calming effects of serotonin.

Fallon calls up another slide on his computer. It has a list of family members' names, and next to them, the results of the genotyping. Everyone in his family has the low-aggression variant of the MAO-A gene, except for one person.

"You see that? I'm 100 percent. I have the pattern, the risky pattern," he says, then pauses. "In a sense, I'm a born killer."

Fallon's being tongue-in-cheek — sort of. He doesn't believe his fate or anyone else's is entirely determined by genes. They merely tip you in one direction or another.

And yet: "When I put the two together, it was frankly a little disturbing," Fallon says with a laugh. "You start to look at yourself and you say, 'I may be a sociopath.' I don't think I am, but this looks exactly like [the brains of] the psychopaths, the sociopaths, that I've seen before."

I asked his wife, Diane, what she thought of the result.

"I wasn't too concerned," she says, laughing. "I mean, I've known him since I was 12."

Diane probably does not need to worry, according to scientists who study this area. They believe that brain patterns and genetic makeup are not enough to make anyone a psychopath. You need a third ingredient: abuse or violence in one's childhood.

"And fortunately, he wasn't abused as a young person," Diane says, "so I've lived to be a ripe old age so far."