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Maybe a predisposition to moral deviance is biochemical?

Do you mean that there's a biochemical "gene" (or similar) for behaving contrary to whatever someone believes is morally correct? Or that morality is an objective state?

I was hypothesising that there may be biochemical processes that regulate your response to (society defined) morally deviant actions.

I am only asking questions to point out the answer probably isn't as simple as the poster seem to believe.

well, "biochemical processes" isn't exactly simple. :P

Downvoted for asking a simple question?

Is that what HN has come to? Really?

I'm really sorry my friend.

They (downvoters) fail to realize that they are shooting the messengers, nothing more. But smart people understand. They know and will never cease to keeping them honest..

Yeah, thanks. I am only trying to hint at the possibility that there are other avenues to consider than a simple "crime gene", ie. the answer is probably not as simple as the poster wants.

Genetics and the human body have proven to be increasingly complex.

> Downvoted for asking a simple question

this seems a bit reductive.

sometimes people asking leading questions that are a bit... let's say tired, aren't all that interesting. if there is a point to be made, they should just make it.

"smart people" (as you say) sometimes prefer forthright discussion.

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I love how all the reactionaries come out to glom on to these sorts of findings.

„Democrats and Republicans are rather similar in linking individual characteristics to genes and race, even IQ, aggression and homosexuality.“

https://twitter.com/degenrolf/status/998856273725743104?s=21

not all democrats are progressive. or, perhaps more to the point, not all democrats are non-reactionary.

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