Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Janice Shell who wrote (10712)	5/23/1998 2:40:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Sociopathy-as I understand it- is caused by both genetic and environmental factors, so you can have the genetic tendency but it might not emerge as full-blown sociopathic behavior without the environmental conditions to encourage it. It makes sense to me that the stress of life today would be causing a higher incidence of obvious antisocial acts. This from a thesis by Linda Mealey on the Sociopath: My basic premise is that sociopaths are designed for the successful execution of social deception and that they are the product of evolutionary pressures which, through a complex interaction of environmental and genetic factors, lead some individuals to pursue a life history strategy of manipulative and predatory social interactions. Don't you love the way academicians write? Bad genes + bad parents = bad behavior