Heredity,environment or both are often blamed for situations. Which one can be blamed for criminals?

My answer is either. Individually, both heredity and environment can possibly contribute to criminal behavior. Acting together, the pair could probably enhance the possibility of criminal behavior.

As an educator, I see many wonderful parents that have children that display behaviors that shock them every day. I think that a behavior disorder is just that... a disorder. Some genetic, and some environmental.

There is no denying that the environment can shape a behavior. Everybody is shaped someway or another by their environment. Everyone gets a payoff from the behavior, whether it is power, attention, or tangible.

Finding the payoff and working from that angle will help. Professional help is always advisable. Otherwise, one may be working in the dark.

Now that is the million $$$ question! Are we intrinsically good or intrinsically bad. States of mind or states of consciousness which are intrinsically good usually require a change in our perceptual mind-set.

Consider Spinoza's observation: With regard to god and evil, these terms indicate nothing positive in things considered in themselves, nor are they anything else than modes of thought, or notions which we form the comparison of one thing with another. For one and the same thing may at the same time be both good and evil or indifferent. Music, for example, is good to a melancholy person, bad to one in mourning, while to a deaf man it is neither good nor bad.

Are we products of evolution(experience) or do we have it all within us at birth(inate)? Aristotle vs Plato. We have free will whatever the genes may be telling someone else!

Love, hugz & kizzez!Leon.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.