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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  Yes, and there's some evidence to suggest that their brains are difference. I can't remember all the details but there is a little something next to the pineal gland in the brain that they think has to do with the conscience. They've studied normal brains and people like Ted Bundy who would be considered a psychopath or sociopath. Not all psychopaths are kind enough to donate their brains to science, so there is not a lot of data, but there was a statistically significant difference in the psychopath’s brain and the normal brain. I don’t really know how you could teach a child not to ever feel guilt, even with lousy parenting. An extremely abused child may not have any feelings toward others, but most of the time psychopath’s childhoods aren’t really different than the norm. So I’m leaning towards “born that way”, but I still think they should be punished and controlled when caught. They can learn to behave, not because it’s better, but because they have more freedom. The sad thing about this is it's very hard to diagnose, and you can't do it before a child is 18 because so much of the psychopaths behavior is within the normal range of a teenager. |
The pineal gland - very interesting, didn't know that. It would be very interesting if they could make it mandatory to scan the brains of criminals who exhibit obvious sociopathic behavior. Maybe offer them a month of cigarettes in prison if they submit to the brain scan if they couldn't make it mandatory.