Comments for Laurajoslyn's Weblog http://laurajoslyn.wordpress.com Not Your Everyday WordPress.com weblog Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:19:17 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Response to Time article “Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind” (2007) by laurajoslyn http://laurajoslyn.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/response-to-time-article-top-10-mysteries-of-the-mind-2007/#comment-7 laurajoslyn Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:19:17 +0000 http://laurajoslyn.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/response-to-time-article-top-10-mysteries-of-the-mind-2007/#comment-7 After all these comments I had to look at your blog. I can see why you have a need to be right, therefore are argumentative. I am not judging and I am not saying I am perfect by any stretch of the imagination. I have known people with the same personality you display on your blog. (My sister be one.) I refuse to argue with her and I hold you no higher in status so I refuse to argue with you, Elver. To everyone else who has had the patience to read these comments, I hope that you read my other posts and feel like you can make any sort of comment you wish to. I won't delete any comments unless they are demeaning, abusive, or not relevant to the post. After all these comments I had to look at your blog. I can see why you have a need to be right, therefore are argumentative. I am not judging and I am not saying I am perfect by any stretch of the imagination. I have known people with the same personality you display on your blog. (My sister be one.) I refuse to argue with her and I hold you no higher in status so I refuse to argue with you, Elver.
To everyone else who has had the patience to read these comments, I hope that you read my other posts and feel like you can make any sort of comment you wish to. I won’t delete any comments unless they are demeaning, abusive, or not relevant to the post.

]]> Comment on Response to Time article “Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind” (2007) by Elver http://laurajoslyn.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/response-to-time-article-top-10-mysteries-of-the-mind-2007/#comment-6 Elver Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:38:07 +0000 http://laurajoslyn.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/response-to-time-article-top-10-mysteries-of-the-mind-2007/#comment-6 People are entitled to <em>informed</em> opinions, not just opinions. Or in other words, if an opinion is not based on reality, it's not an opinion. It's a figment of their imagination. People are entitled to informed opinions, not just opinions. Or in other words, if an opinion is not based on reality, it’s not an opinion. It’s a figment of their imagination.

]]> Comment on Response to Time article “Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind” (2007) by laurajoslyn http://laurajoslyn.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/response-to-time-article-top-10-mysteries-of-the-mind-2007/#comment-5 laurajoslyn Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:36:01 +0000 http://laurajoslyn.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/response-to-time-article-top-10-mysteries-of-the-mind-2007/#comment-5 If you would like to post your "defense", please feel free. I haven't the emotion necessary to argue back and forth on the subject though. I prefer to argue over things I have an emotional connection to. Anyway, you need not defend your opinion at all. You are entitled to any opinion, just as I am entitled to mine. Thank you for commenting, no matter what you chose to do. If you would like to post your “defense”, please feel free. I haven’t the emotion necessary to argue back and forth on the subject though. I prefer to argue over things I have an emotional connection to.

Anyway, you need not defend your opinion at all. You are entitled to any opinion, just as I am entitled to mine.

Thank you for commenting, no matter what you chose to do.

]]> Comment on Response to Time article “Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind” (2007) by Elver http://laurajoslyn.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/response-to-time-article-top-10-mysteries-of-the-mind-2007/#comment-4 Elver Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:37:52 +0000 http://laurajoslyn.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/response-to-time-article-top-10-mysteries-of-the-mind-2007/#comment-4 No, but you were referring go <em>treatments</em> and if you take away a person's violent urges, then that's <em>treatment</em> and that will have an effect on his/her creativity. As for simplicity, then I'm willing to defend all my positions if you're able to challenge them :) No, but you were referring go treatments and if you take away a person’s violent urges, then that’s treatment and that will have an effect on his/her creativity.

As for simplicity, then I’m willing to defend all my positions if you’re able to challenge them :)

]]> Comment on Response to Time article “Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind” (2007) by laurajoslyn http://laurajoslyn.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/response-to-time-article-top-10-mysteries-of-the-mind-2007/#comment-3 laurajoslyn Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:10:08 +0000 http://laurajoslyn.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/response-to-time-article-top-10-mysteries-of-the-mind-2007/#comment-3 Thank you, Elver, for taking the time to read my blog. I am of the opinion that you are being too simplistic in your answers to my questions. I don't think is it that easy. I do, however, agree that it would be a shame to lose our artists. Doing a brain map or scanning the brain would not have any effect on the individual's tendency towards certain feelings. They are both non-invasive and change nothing within the brain. As for your last comment, I think the life of a person is more important than a poem, painting, or film. I think being educated about the processes of which I am speaking would be beneficial to you. They, by no means, turn a person's brain into mush. Thank you, Elver, for taking the time to read my blog.

I am of the opinion that you are being too simplistic in your answers to my questions. I don’t think is it that easy. I do, however, agree that it would be a shame to lose our artists. Doing a brain map or scanning the brain would not have any effect on the individual’s tendency towards certain feelings. They are both non-invasive and change nothing within the brain.

As for your last comment, I think the life of a person is more important than a poem, painting, or film. I think being educated about the processes of which I am speaking would be beneficial to you. They, by no means, turn a person’s brain into mush.

]]> Comment on Response to Time article “Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind” (2007) by Elver http://laurajoslyn.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/response-to-time-article-top-10-mysteries-of-the-mind-2007/#comment-2 Elver Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:09:29 +0000 http://laurajoslyn.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/response-to-time-article-top-10-mysteries-of-the-mind-2007/#comment-2 <blockquote>"Why does the animal inside each of us subside to our individual morals?"</blockquote> Subscribing to a social framework of values is beneficial to the individual. It pays more to be just like everyone else wants you to be. <blockquote>"What makes a person go from thought to action when they know the action is illegal and immoral?"</blockquote> 1. Necessity. Real or perceived lack of something vital. 2. Fun factor. Excitement of breaking rules. 3. Higher truth. Belief that what one is doing is worth the penalty associated with crime. <blockquote>"What makes a pedophile, rapist, murderer, or abuser?"</blockquote> Pedophile. Genetic. Just like being gay. Rapist. A series of negative experiences with women or a series of experiences devaluing women. Murderer. Too many reasons. Abuser. Either a mental problem with the abuser or the subservience of the victim. There's a certain appeal to pushing someone just to see how far they would go. <blockquote>"How can some people grow up in the same environment as another and the two end up as polar opposites?"</blockquote> Humans are genetically and emotionally too diverse for the environment to have only a single effect. <blockquote>"It is the trauma the brain may suffer during gestation and birth."</blockquote> Doesn't seem likely. Brain damage is too blunt to have such precise effects. <blockquote>"It is the emotional, physical, and/or sexual traumas the person may have suffered throughout life."</blockquote> It is my opinion that this part of the equation has been seriously overlooked by a lot of psychologists. <blockquote>"Now if scientists can examine a persons DNA or do a brain map to see how the brain is functioning, then determine from that the likelihood of that person becoming/being a violent person, it would be possible to invent treatments that could prevent the crimes from ever happening."</blockquote> We'd also be turning all our great future artists into mush. Pretty much all great art that I know of has its roots in some sort of violent, repressed urges. All our greatest fiction, film, music, etc. Crime prevention isn't worth losing all that.

“Why does the animal inside each of us subside to our individual morals?”

Subscribing to a social framework of values is beneficial to the individual. It pays more to be just like everyone else wants you to be.

“What makes a person go from thought to action when they know the action is illegal and immoral?”

1. Necessity. Real or perceived lack of something vital.
2. Fun factor. Excitement of breaking rules.
3. Higher truth. Belief that what one is doing is worth the penalty associated with crime.

“What makes a pedophile, rapist, murderer, or abuser?”

Pedophile. Genetic. Just like being gay.
Rapist. A series of negative experiences with women or a series of experiences devaluing women.
Murderer. Too many reasons.
Abuser. Either a mental problem with the abuser or the subservience of the victim. There’s a certain appeal to pushing someone just to see how far they would go.

“How can some people grow up in the same environment as another and the two end up as polar opposites?”

Humans are genetically and emotionally too diverse for the environment to have only a single effect.

“It is the trauma the brain may suffer during gestation and birth.”

Doesn’t seem likely. Brain damage is too blunt to have such precise effects.

“It is the emotional, physical, and/or sexual traumas the person may have suffered throughout life.”

It is my opinion that this part of the equation has been seriously overlooked by a lot of psychologists.

“Now if scientists can examine a persons DNA or do a brain map to see how the brain is functioning, then determine from that the likelihood of that person becoming/being a violent person, it would be possible to invent treatments that could prevent the crimes from ever happening.”

We’d also be turning all our great future artists into mush. Pretty much all great art that I know of has its roots in some sort of violent, repressed urges. All our greatest fiction, film, music, etc.

Crime prevention isn’t worth losing all that.

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