Re: Violence in Video Games

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From: Geoffrey Richard Driscoll Tobin
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:00

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rgrace wrote:
> 
> I think you are using the word psychopath in the wrong criteria.  Estimates
> are that 1 in 10 people in the western world are psychopaths - that doesnt
> mean they are all potential serial killers, just that they dont care about
> anyone else, have little moral code, and an inability to form personal
> relationships. ...

I've recently read that can be due to damage to the prefontal lobe.
It's most serious when it happens early in childhood, as then they
never get the chance to learn to respect other people.

When it happens to adults, the loss of interpersonal perception still
shows
sometimes, but mostly they seem normal because they can get by on habits
previously formed.

-- 
Best wishes!
Geoffrey Tobin
Email:  G.T...@latrobe.edu.au
WWW:    http://www.ee.latrobe.edu.au/~gt/gt.html

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From: Geoffrey Richard Driscoll Tobin <G.T...@latrobe.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Violence in Video Games
Date: 1999/11/11
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