I Don't Have Urges Bouncing Up From the Brain, You Know?

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i was reading adrian raine's book on, ou know, the anatomy of violence. He scan the brains of cereal killers and csychopads in prison. To a man, again, most of their pre frontal cortex was pretty quiet,. jut, they just had no self control over the urges bubbling up from the brain. And i think, again, it's probably more of an aberration. These are the f the one to three per centers, or maybe the one % of the one%. You know, some psychopathy is good, but these people are bad. I don't tend to have em either. But maybe this is reflecting in some way, our

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