posted on Nov, 25 2009 @ 06:08 PM
Originally posted by Nventual
Do you have any links to studies done that suggest that?
nope, sorry, just my experience. obviously, it's fairly worthless academically and quite subjective.
i've found, in my experience, that it takes a certain type of selfishness to hurt somebody to benefit yourself. it's possible that anyone can manage
it and become desensitized to it as a teenager but as you get older it becomes fairly unlikely that you'ld develop this selfishness.
it's either apparent by 18 or it isn't.
don't get me wrong, you might shoplift to feed your family or what not, but you're not likely to start holding up banks or stealing cars. nothing
where fingerprints would be useful.
you might commit a crime of passion, but chances are your fingerprints won't be a factor in your being caught and convicted.
on a side note, this selfishness is seen as good in the upper and middle class and bad in the lower classes but it always leads to criminal behavior.