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Originally posted by Screwed
reply to post by Xcalibur254
One pre-requisite of being human is the ability to feel empathy and love.
in my opinion of course.
These beings DO NOT HAVE THIS ABILITY!!!.
If you want to take that as meaning that they are aliens disguised as humans using a cloaking device then you can certainly take it that way.
If you want to think that they are shapeshifters you can certainly think that.
By MY definition these people who carry the psychopath gene are NOT human.
They LOOK human.
edit on 29-9-2011 by Screwed because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by Screwed
Actually it's really easy to define what a human is. Can a "psychopath" breed with what you would consider a human and produce viable offspring? Yes. Thus they are the same species. It's as simple as that. Then there's also the fact that this whole argument hinges on the hypothesis of the triune brain. Unfortunately, the triune brain is more of a pop psychology convention than something accepted by actual psychologists, neurologists, and neuroscientists. Even in its heyday the hypothesis was never widely accepted and today is considered outdated.
A Morroccan mule, which is supposed to be sterile, has baffled scientists by giving birth.
DNA tests say the foal's mother was a mule while the father was a donkey.
Mules are hybrids, a cross between two species, in this case, the horse and the donkey.
They are almost always unable to breed because their genetic make-up is so unusual. The foal inherited a mixture of horse and donkey chromosomes via the mother's ovum
The Society for the Protection of Animals of North Africa, told BBC News Online: "The discovery defies scientific wisdom because mules are supposed to be sterile."
The 14-year-old mother mule gave birth at the end of August, in a small hamlet in the region of Oulmes.
Vets from the Society for the Protection of Animals of North Africa visited the animal and took blood tests for analysis.
The Moroccan foal looks a bit like a baby donkey and a bit like a baby mule - but not exactly like either. Genetically, it is a quarter horse and three quarters donkey.
Originally posted by Xcalibur254
reply to post by Screwed
I am giving you the biological definition of species. A species is defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. This is the most basic way species is defined. We could then go on to look at similarities between morphology and DNA, but no matter which of these methods are used "psychopaths" are still part of Homo sapiens sapiens.
hu·man [hyoo-muhn or, often, yoo‐]
adjective
1. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
2. consisting of people: the human race.
3. of or pertaining to the social aspect of people: human affairs.
4. sympathetic; humane: a warmly human understanding.
noun
5. a human being.
hu·mane [hyoo-meyn or, often, yoo-]
adjective
1. characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, especially for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of horses.
2. of or pertaining to humanistic studies.