Do serials killers have afaulty gene that makes the way they are?

Question

surely there is something worng in their brain that makes them kill people which is wrong, the same as doen syndrom people have an extra pair of chromozome which make them they way they are. so We could deduct that people who are born gay have a faulty gene which make like people form the same gender? if you say that its people choice to be gay than the same applies for killers then? the logic is that men and women are meant to be together? what next? it will be common practice to kill anyone you dont like?

Answer 1

Hi and welcome to the eternal question: Are we nature or nurture? Are we what we were born to be or influenced by what we learn.

I have seen many documentaries on this issue and you will be surprised how much we are influenced by genes. A boy being adapted by a very good home at age of 6 months, brought up by very educated calm family, grows up to be a serial killer exactly like the dad he has never met or knew to exists. And in the courts when they trace his family tree, they found along the line every member of his ancestor were violent criminals as far as US records go to 17th centrury!

Two twins are sperated and adopted at birth, go to live very different lifes and not to know that they are a twin brother. At age of 38 they meet up and to their surprise: They like the same food, same after shave, same profession, and listen to this...they had almost identical looking wifes (three partners over the years!) with some having the same names!!

Gays are known to be born that way, and many will tell you they hated soo much being different and it was never their choice. Science backs that theory with facts about the size of the hypothalamous( gland in our brain that control our emotions and sexual desires) - read my other questions/answer if you like.

But are we all controlled by genes? We are partly, and you will see from things you like and dislike and you share with your father, mother, brothers, and sisters. However, with taste (unlike emotions and sexual desire) we can change because we may just have the rebelious gene or the gene to be different! It is almost human nature to make us feel special, we will pick things to be different... and we can mask somethings with practice: such as anger management, aggression management, greed, and others. Some maybe masked with medication.

My understanding is that our emotions, love, and hate are 99% controlled by genetics. It is why when you fall in love, you have absolutely no control over your emotions! Even if that person is married, not really what you discribe as your type, or not a good person.
Our tastes, values, anger, and aggression are 50% controlled by genetics and 50% what the environment we live and learn from. These are things wel learn to like and dislike..and may even sometimes not be sure if we like or dislike.

Hope this helps.

Dr FS

Answer 2

Why do I get the feeling that you've just tried to compare serial killers to people who are gay?
If your hypothesis is correct, then people who are dishonest, greedy, narrow-minded, nasty, self-absorbed, xenophobic, arachnophobia, cowardly, inethical, immoral, amoral, ignorant, obtuse, judgemental, impatient, blunt, abrupt, (I'll stop now, in the hope that you see my point) are the result of a genetic disorder.
Tell me honestly: have you spotted yourself yet in my list?
If you have, then you probably don't put yourself in the same class as serial killers. Am I right?
(oh, and another thing, before I move on:
RE: "the logic is that men and women are meant to be together".
When the world is grossly over populated, I won't be turning in my grave knowing that I've helped kill the planet ~ could you say the same, sweetie?)
People are the way they are because of circumstance. I don't think that you can 'breed' killers (which I think is what is implied by your suggestion that killers have a faulty gene).
People have a tendency to blame problems on things that they don't understand (do you know much about science or genetics?) is this the result of a faulty gene too?
My point is:where do you draw the line when blaming bad traits on genetics?

Answer 3

Any person with aberant behavior can use the "I was born this way excuse." Most people with mental illness can function within society almost 100% of the time. However, that 1 part of their lives is completely disfunctional and perhaps dangerous.

This is why when someone gets caught with 100 dead bodies under their house, the neighbors always say, "I had no idea, he was such a nice young man."


I am probably programmed to like women from birth, but does that mean I run around and have sex with as many as possible, spreading disease everywhere? No. That is a CHOICE not a compulsion.

Gay men seem to be compulsive butt-bangers though, therefore, that means they are most likely mentally ill.

Answer 4

you sound ignorant to me. youre oversimplifying way too much. people kill for an endless variety of reasons, not just because they have what you describe as a "faulty" gene. if you grew up in a loving family with good health and safety and a good education, youd be much less likely to become a serial killer than if you were beaten as a child, lived in poverty, developed psychological problems, and didnt get an education. there are lots of factors which can cause some one to become a serial killer, and simplifying it all to just genetics is wrong. sometimes just the situation can have a big influence in starting it off - if some ones testosterone levels happen to be up that day which makes them just a bit more aggressive so that they attack some one. loads of reasons for killing. and as for they gay bit.. it just sounds dumber and dumber.. what does being gay have to do with being a serial killer?!! completely unrelated!!

Answer 5

Its not genetic.

Psycopaths tend to have a short circet that means that they can not feel empathy for another. The extreme version of this is that they can kill another and not feel guilt or appreciate suffering of others. However, there are a great deal of people who are psycopaths, but will only have a block regarding the emotions, or feelings for others. This might me viewed as selfish behaviour.

Psycopaths are quite common, but they are not the only form of mental illnes. Even so, these are illnesses. They are not passed from father to son.

Answer 6

Here's a passage from the link cited below:

"Genetics/Bad Seeds [-] Are the psychopathic criminals really different from birth?

Many parents say that their children who grow up to be violent offenders are markedly different from their non-violent siblings. Three-year-old Ted Bundy sneaked into his teenage aunt Julia's room one morning, and slipped butcher knives under the covers of her bed. "He just stood there and grinned," she said. Serial killer Carl Panzram himself wrote: "All of my family are as the average human beings are. They are honest and hard working people. All except myself. I have been a human-animile ever since I was born. When I was very young at 5 or 6 years of age I was a thief and a lier and a mean despisable one at that. The older I got the meaner I got." German child killer Peter Kurten had drowned two playmates by the tender age of nine.

Are these children just born bad? Environment alone cannot explain deranged behavior — too many abused and neglected children grow up to be law-abiding citizens. If there is a genetic explanation, its a slippery, discreet mutation. We don't see entire families of serial killers. There is no such thing as a "kill gene", but research is revealing some genetic tendencies to violent behavior. In other words, bad seeds blossom in bad environments."

Answer 7

Of course not. This is the kind of nonsense that people are hearing today from homosexuals. People are not born homosexuals, and they are not born killers. We all make choices.

Otherwise, why would we punish criminals? Do you think a Mao, or a Stalin, or a Hitler are just doing what comes natural to them? There are people who will do what ever they have to do to get their way. If it means killing a few people, so be it.

We are all accountable for our actions. We have free will.

Answer 8

I think people that kill stems from their childhood.. not in their genes. usually they have some messed up childhood...not loved or abused mentally, physically and/or sexually
gay is hardly on the same terms as a mass murderer..think about your question first...!

Answer 9

But his evil self induced him to kill his brother, and so he killed him and became one of the losers.

On account of this, We prescribed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killed a person - unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land - it shall be as if he killed all mankind; and whoso saved a life, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind. And our Messengers came to them with clear Signs, Yet even after that, many of them commit excesses in the land.

Answer 10

No they don't . However Sociopathic tendencies usually show up from a very young age and should give us clues as to who to watch out for. Unfortunately in order to be able to pick up on them we would need to live in a totalitarian police state....