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Originally Posted by Spectato

That it's one of the things that made us an incredibly successful species?

Nope. Assumption is the mother of all F` up`s.

Such is the whimsical nature of the news, we'll probably never know, though it doesn't say much for the human psyche if a single event like that in itself could turn someone into a malevolent sociopath.

Indeed.

I guess the rest of us, normal peace-loving folk, all had incredibly easy, idyllic childhoods without any kind of trauma, punishment, fight or violent event?

I wasn`t defending the guy in question i was merely saying that it`s not always the case that people who have had difficult upbringings automatically take the same destructive paths in life and it`s certainly not always the case that those who have had good upbringings automatically become good upstanding members of the community.