Posted on 07/28/2013 7:42:47 AM PDT by kevcol
Dad was a Crips gangbanger. He didn’t perceive any problems at all with Skittles’ psyche.
It is a racial thing, initiated and perpetuated by racist blacks and dem/libs.
Marijuana use inhibits defelopment of the prefrontal cortex. It's generally fully developed by age 20-22, so the effect isn't significant in people who become users later in life, but produces "arrested development" in people who start using it before development is complete.
Trayvon had the physical body of a 17 year old athlete, and quite possibly the reasoning and cognitive abilities of someone normally much younger. He was able to physically inflict considerable damage to another person (quite possibly lethal) and would have all the aggressive tendencies that come with the high testosterone levels normally present in 17 year old adolescents, but hadn't developed the ability to understand and predict the potential consequences of his own actions.
In violent individuals of all ages,brain SPECT studies have identified decreased activity in the prefrontal cortex. In addition, there is often abnormal activity in the left temporal lobe which causes a "short fuse".
A can of sweet tea??? what's your excuse, Marilee??? what happened to your prefrontal cortex???
I’m not saying Martin was a victim, but more a product of his culture. My dad used to say the military was the place for weak minds and strong bodies. That applies to gang culture too. The gangs have a well established structure and know exactly how to attract and brainwash it’s recruits.
The gangs are taking the place of the traditional military to manipulate the demons that exist in most young men but with outlaws as supervisors.
Self esteem, timeouts, and other Dr. Spock crap just don’t work on adolescents.
It reminds me of a study on young male elephants. In captivity unsupervised young males go into rut and cause all sorts of destruction and mayhem. In the wild they are surrounded by mature males who kick the shit out of them when they get out of line. The youngsters learn quickly that behavior modification is the order of the day.
And all this is non-scientific anyway. Sure the frontal lobe in teens doesn’t have the white matter of adults but who knows what this means when it comes to effecting behavior. Psychologists try to apply the frontal lobe not being fully developed in teens to every bad behavior for an excuse. Male teens have a lot more testosterone and that’s a main reason for aggression, add that to poor up-bringing.
And she’s wrong about their age difference. Zimmerman was not “almost twice Martin’s age” when this happened. He was 27..ten years older but not almost twice the age.
I think that is why they lowered it to 18.
The girlfriend said she told TM on the phone that Z might be “one of those” and going to rape him or follow him home and rape T M ‘s younger brother.
Rush pointed this out a week ago and no one has touched the fact that TM probably attacked Z because TM thought he was homosexual.
If Holder wants to investigate something, he can look into a homosexual hate crime.
Is that from “Young Frankenstein”? Or, is it part of Doo Wop lyrics, “Doowop doolang, doowah (blongatah) doolang”?
Ha Ha
Bat
“There's something wrong with his Medulla Oblongata!”
Did not see that one...Gene Wilder, in “YF”’s early classroom lecture scene talks about the Medulla Oblangata at the base of the brain. Funny scene.
EXACTLY!! Doesn't that make him the aggressor?
The most that can be said is that Zimmerman carelessly increased the risk of a confrontation by failing to take Sean Noffke's advice, even though he knew the cops would arrive soon. But that's strictly hindsight. In the event, Martin confronted Zimmerman and attacked him, and Zimmerman did what he had to do. To obtain a conviction, the persecution needed to prove otherwise. They failed.
I say persecution because they knew they didn't have the evidence, yet prosecuted anyway, in cooperation with the race hustlers and the Democrat Party.
So if Farmer is suggesting that 29-year-old Zimmerman was frightened for his life, I am suggesting that 17-year-old Martin was too.
Then why didn't he just run on home?
But Zimmerman possessed all the ammunition to prevent this tragedy.
Fortunately, he did indeed.
If they really believe this is true, then raise the voting age to 25.
Sweet Little Trayvon Martin had an immature prefrontal cortex still overruled by primitive limbic structures, which (correctly) implies that he didn’t understand the gravity of the situation he created.
In a decent family, the parents (optimally two of them, married to each other, and more involved with their son’s life than with their social lives) would have taught Sweet Little Trayvon that it is wrong to beat on strangers, even creepy ones, and even crackers. In a decent culture, that family conditioning would have restrained Sweet Little Trayvon from acting like a thug controlled by his limbic system instead of like a civilized person controlled by his prefrontal cortex.
Instead, Sweet Little Trayvon was controlled by his emotions, as he was taught, and his emotions told him that interfering with the business of casing homes in Daddy’s girlfriend’s neighborhood made him angry. Trayvon didn’t like that, so he threw the last sucker punch of his life, and administered his last whooping on a weaker target. I feel sorry for Baby Trayvon who was born into such a selfish and inept family 17 years earlier, but not for the grown thug who launched an unprovoked attack. Good riddance.
The author of this steaming pile of cranial feces is a professor
of literature and writing, not a psychology professor. My oldest
took an elective class from her while attending WNC and said she
is dumber than a sack of hammers. My daughter is a grammar
nazi and KNOWS the English language and said this idiot would
flunk freshman English. Just another liberal moron hiding behind
their faux credentials.
Most Americans have already forgotten about it...if only you lamestream pressers would allow us to keep forgetting about it!
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