My heart is bursting. On the eve of my first child's birth, my dad - who's been in prison nearly my entire life - was granted clemency. He never intended harm, yet his crime devastated many families. My heart breaks for the families that can never get their loved ones back.
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Replying to @chesaboudin
Your communist activist father (M19CO) was the getaway driver for a robbery that resulted in the deaths of 3 people - one security guard and 2 policemen. They were executed in cold blood by his accomplices using M16s and shotguns. Feckless cowards. Like father, like son.
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Replying to @g_deceiver @chesaboudin
Since when is being a coward a heritable trait? And since when is the son convicted for the crimes of a parent?
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As far as I understand, pretty much all personality traits that psychometricians have studied are partly genetic and partly environmental. I'm not sure if anyone has investigated the behavioural genetics of cowardice specifically, but the null hypothesis should be that it is/
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Replying to @Aurinkoinen6 @Politics_Please and
/partly genetic unless and until proven otherwise. That's not to say that people deserve to be *blamed* for the specific flaws of their parents, merely that we should expect them, on average, to *have* similar flaws even after controlling for upbringing.
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“should” What kind of research is able to factor in untold childhood experiences, and then the effects those myriad experiences have on individuals with their own individual temperaments being raised by parent(s) with their own childhood experiences and temperaments, etc.?
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