Michael Ragland wrote:

> Well I hope the vast majority of research on aggression isn't reflective
> of the photogragh on the website representing a mental patient in a
> straight jacket in agony having a doctor poke something in his head in a
> theatre like setting while in the far backrow other researchers sit.
> 
Actually, he's using a dropper to drop liquid onto the patient's eyes. 
I guess you live in the UK, where the film "A Clockwork Orange" was 
banned by Stanley Kubrick.  Or you just didn't want to watch it.

[moderator's snark: Wow, why would Stanley ban his own film? - JAH]

On the main discussion, the problem I have is that concepts like 
"criminality" and "aggression" are not ones that seem
to me to have a 
good biological basis.  Criminality is social - is there really a gene 
for smoking in an Irish bar?  And aggression seems to be a catch-all for 
a large number of traits: a Friday-night argument outside a bar must 
have a very source of aggression from that found in an Olympic sprinter, 
or from a soldier defending his country in a war. Lumping them all into 
a single category missing a lot of important nuances, and makes it 
difficult to isolate causes of different behaviours.

Bob

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