RE: Psych/Philo: Brains want to cooperate

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Aug 16 2002 - 21:47:14 MDT


At 08:10 AM 8/16/02 -0700, Lee wrote:

>Perhaps this genetic flaw (from our perspective, of course) also
>has other repercussions besides a tendency to have lots of offspring.
>For example, before many opportunities to mate have arisen, such
>people have already run afoul of society's other rules, and perhaps
>already have a criminal record or have been shunned or killed.

Pulling this suggestion out of my, um, backbrain: perhaps
psychopathy-conducive damage isn't genetically inherited but due to, say,
developmental insult or other foetal or infant damage?

Damien Broderick



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