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To: elfman2

Good references.

I wonder if anyone has done similar studies on "theft".

You know, the desire to steal vs the actual lowering of the will to steal.

Seems that we humans have various levels of mental misbehavior, but only some of us will take that mental misbehavior and make a lifestyle out of it.

Have they done a twin study on it yet? If a twin is a pathological thief, is their twin more likely to be one?


59 posted on 02/14/2005 5:54:57 AM PST by Paloma_55
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To: Paloma_55
Actually, yea. I think some have been done on criminal behavior and found correlations. But the the twin studies that I think have the most commonality to homosexuality are on mental illness. I looked it up a long time ago, but didn’t save it, Google results. I think “mental illness” is a better comparison because sexual “orientation” is more resultant of an emotional/psychological “principle” if you will, that most participants say has always been beyond their control. I think it’s also comparable on a moral level, not so blatant a “sin”, benign at best and arguably indirectly destructive to society.
61 posted on 02/14/2005 6:54:49 AM PST by elfman2
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