(April 18, 2015 at 6:07 pm)Passive Atheist Wrote:(April 12, 2015 at 11:01 am)abaris Wrote: No, there's no good or bad person to begin with. It's the environment shaping us into one or the other. Most simply stay average persons for their whole lives. But the Milgram expirement has shown that average persons can be turned into monsters, given the right environmental influence, which ideologies provide.
Actually there has been many studies of serial killers that strongly suggest there is a genetic component to their behavior. Of course no one wants to really get into that nest of snakes because the question then arises who is qualified to make decisions relating to the sutibility of a particular person to be incarcerated/eliminated based on genetic properties. Not you or me.
Robert
I think it's environmental. Leave me alone with a box of Honeynut Cheerios or Fruit Loops, you'll see. I'm a cereal killer.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
