So now he is a candidate for Special Ops :-) More seriously, its another data point in the nature vs nurture debate and one where even he points out, he is very competitive and can be rude even to children. Advice, don't cut this guy off on the freeway :-).
One wonders how many people "discover" they are psychopaths when they do something psychopathic and it gives them a huge endorphin rush and then they want to do it again? If this guy got into a competitive situation and ended up literally beating his opponent into a bloody pulp, would his brain chemistry make it feel to him like the best sex [1] he had ever had? And then would he be able to not do it again? That is the interesting bit for me, while I am a big fan of the nurture hypothesis, can nature override it? And does it?
[1] Pick what ever primal rewarding activity you want here, sex seems to be a fairly common one.
This is a very good point. Generally, there's some element of nature and some element of nurture in a person's development. I mean you take two identical twins who are separated from birth and find that they're very similar in some respects and completely different in others.
The point is that there's a difference between temperamentpersonality. Some people are just wired to act a certain way and yet are raised to be a totally different way.
One wonders how many people "discover" they are psychopaths when they do something psychopathic and it gives them a huge endorphin rush and then they want to do it again? If this guy got into a competitive situation and ended up literally beating his opponent into a bloody pulp, would his brain chemistry make it feel to him like the best sex [1] he had ever had? And then would he be able to not do it again? That is the interesting bit for me, while I am a big fan of the nurture hypothesis, can nature override it? And does it?
[1] Pick what ever primal rewarding activity you want here, sex seems to be a fairly common one.