Is it common amongst your peers to say you were born a rapist? ‘Cause I’ve never heard a single person say that in my entire life.
Why is "I was born this way" and other "genetic predisposition" defenses almost common place? I get the physical stuff like loss of limbs but not the I was born to hate, or rape, and so forth?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
Comments
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
sharpening an axe
Turns out, I’m 25% Scandinavian, and wanted to embrace my heritage, ya know? I always used to feel guilty about this, but I was just born this way.
The poor priest: oh lawd.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I knew a guy who said shit like this. He abused young boys. I reported him and attached several of the epistles he wrote justifying it.
Patnou@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was mainly talking about courts like so and so shot up a neighborhood because he or she was born with the predisposition for hate or whatever. For me everything in life is a choice blaming your wrong choice on genetics is a cop out.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Got an article about this alleged event?
Epp@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Because of genetics.
Patnou@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ok going into this like you are a very smart person. So your telling me that i was going to become a nurse by genetics? Or couldn’t deal with kids with cancer or lukewarm because I was predisposed?
Epp@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Possibly. If the genes that cause you to get satisfaction from taking care of others, that would cause you to gravitate towards nursing. If your instinctual reaction to deformity, illness or bodily fluids outweighs that disposition, then you’d be less likely to be a nurse.
Your reactions to sights, sounds, smells, etc are not choices, right? You can be self aware and modulate your response, but the underlying reaction is determined everyday by your biological coding. Hence your genetics can lead you towards or push you away from careers based on your individual disposition as determined by your genetics.
CannedYeet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Look up Robert Sapolsky’s arguments on this.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A lot of your posts make me feel like I’m missing a lot of very specific context.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
This is called “mental diarrhea”, and apparently it just never stops.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
They said they had early onset Alzheimer’s the other day and it kind of explains a lot.
Patnou@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well I am very easy going. No one keeps me in on most jokes. But feel free to ask me anything. I am at a point in my life that IDGAF or maybe a midlife crises. So whatever you feel your missing I will try to help as much as I can. Like the grapes and testicle thing.