I have always been very interested in how human mind
can work and act in some extreme situations; to be more specific, how it works
in the precise moment that a person kills another without any regret. There are
several investigations about if murderers are born with a kind of evilness in
their minds, or the society and different situations make them to kill.
A group of geneticists have discovered, in some serial
killers’ DNA, a rare condition in Y chromosome which they called “The evil gen”.
They identified that if a person has this condition, would be more prone of
being violent and having a lower I.Q. This discovers will lead several further
discussions about proving the bias of why some people have a major
predisposition for crime.
Otherwise, most scientists say that there not exists
such gen capable of producing criminal behavior by its own. They believe that several genes acting together,
combined with some social situations, could cause this violent attitude toward
other people. For example, if a person is born in a hostile environment; it has
a violent childhood; it was raped when it was a child; those entire situations
combined with this evil tendency could develop a bestial behavior, without any
guilt or empathy with any person.
So, do you believe
that a person could be born evil or is something random? Next time that you
feel a desire of killing someone, think about this, can you hold it or not? 