* that your genes determine your personality, except when they don't,
* that your behavior is determined by your biology, except when it isn't,
* that lack of affect == Buddhism,
* that "looking at brainscans" is a valid step in judicial sentencing,
* that you can claim to be a person who suffers from an impairment of empathy, who at the extreme, might well not see the difference between a person and a block of wood, and still be taken seriously when you say "that genetics were very, very dominant in who people are—that your genes would tell you who you were going to be",
* that neuroscientists aren't all that spectacular about keeping their data sets neat and orderly; in particular, they don't see a big deal mingling the results of several different experiments, and
* that claiming to have a Big Evil background, that you have to struggle with every day, is still a great way to get publicity.
I laughed, I cried, it changed my life. Two thumbs up.
By the way, have I mentioned that I am of somewhat Nordic descent; every day, I have to fight off the urge to raid the coastlines of Europe, to pillage and plunder the tender and peaceful farmsteads and towns?
Reminds me of the bureaucrat from Hitchiker's Guide that was instructed to tear down Arthur Dent's house. He never knew why he had all those visions of thousands of angry horse riding warriors shouting at him (he was descended from Genghis Kahn).
To get a decent depiction of psychopathy, one really needs read a book like Without Conscience, by Robert Hare. Psychopathy is truly bizarre. You have to consider that this article was coming from a psychopath, and psychopaths have certain characteristic ways of speaking; those characteristic speech patterns, I think, are the reason this article sounds weird.
In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the ice pack I use a deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a water activated gel cleanser, then a honey almond body scrub, and on the face an exfoliating gel scrub. Then I apply an herb-mint facial mask which I leave on for 10 minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an after shave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.
* that the "warrior gene" thing == psychopathy,
* that your genes determine your personality, except when they don't,
* that your behavior is determined by your biology, except when it isn't,
* that lack of affect == Buddhism,
* that "looking at brainscans" is a valid step in judicial sentencing,
* that you can claim to be a person who suffers from an impairment of empathy, who at the extreme, might well not see the difference between a person and a block of wood, and still be taken seriously when you say "that genetics were very, very dominant in who people are—that your genes would tell you who you were going to be",
* that neuroscientists aren't all that spectacular about keeping their data sets neat and orderly; in particular, they don't see a big deal mingling the results of several different experiments, and
* that claiming to have a Big Evil background, that you have to struggle with every day, is still a great way to get publicity.
I laughed, I cried, it changed my life. Two thumbs up.
By the way, have I mentioned that I am of somewhat Nordic descent; every day, I have to fight off the urge to raid the coastlines of Europe, to pillage and plunder the tender and peaceful farmsteads and towns?