So it is gut feeling...
By vanny
@vandana7 (101733)
India
February 5, 2023 9:02am CST
Ages ago, when I was young and not questioning too logically, I had read in an English version of our abridged scripture that people who eat oily and spicy food behave in one way, those who eat sour and fermented food, behave in another way, and those who eat freshly prepare food which is fairly decent with balanced stuff, behave the best....well, something to that effect anyway...
This morning I was reading an article on bacterial controlling our brain...Jesus...looks likes we are defenseless against many beings including the Chinese..kidding.
But ..it did make ponder....in a different dimension...
If bacteria and fungi can control our brain...then the inclination to commit crimes may have something to do with them too....
I have always wanted to do research on what makes a person commit crimes more easily than the other.
While environment acts as a catalyst, I do believe there has to be specific set of genes that act in specific way with what is ingested leading to specific way of reacting...
The prospect is scary.... it means we cannot control crimes by law....lawyers will always get away saying the guy is not responsible because of his genes.
But this also makes me want to study the DNA...several sequences of those ... to identify which genes are more prominently reflected in these people when compared to others, and say genes of a baby...who has not yet started eating regular pizzas and pickles and cakes...
We might get our answers...and may find a solution to control crimes that way ...I am just a person born in wrong time...I feel.
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@celticeagle (174183)
• Boise, Idaho
5 Feb 23
It may have a little to do with how we act but not much.
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@vandana7 (101733)
• India
6 Feb 23
I certainly am open to that possibility. I also hope that in future they may develop a device that can be worn on hand to indicate ...well, this person is about to explode in anger in about 10 minutes...we could all run away from the person in time.
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@vandana7 (101733)
• India
8 Feb 23
@wolfgirl569 Good na...you could pick whatever you wanted and not pay anything for it..Evil Grin.
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@wolfgirl569 (115834)
• Marion, Ohio
6 Feb 23
@vandana7 If I had one it would be going off everytime I go grocery shopping 
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@vandana7 (101733)
• India
6 Feb 23
Human rights activists will not agree to what I would want to try... that is the issue too.
I was thinking of exposing the criminal to his or her crimes....with the help of contemporary morphing technologies. Take his or her blood and other body fluids at the start, and then expose him or her to that movie clip with him or her committing that crime... and take the blood and body fluids once more...see what is increasing or decreasing...repeat this n number of times... to see what could be the common thing...
Repeat it with same crime being committed by others ...and see what are the changes...
Based on the changes at the time........ we may well be able to make progress in understanding which scenes lead to agitation or aggression.
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@spiderdust (14756)
• San Jose, California
5 Feb 23
From what I understand regarding fungi controlling the brain, at least like it does in the case of cordyceps and ants, it doesn't actually work that way in humans because our body temperature is too high for it to survive in the brain.
Now our gut flora, on the other hand, really can make a difference in how our brain functions; the gut and brain are connected by nerves, and the bacteria can send signals to the brain through those nerves. It's why we have "butterflies in the stomach" when we are nervous, or why stress can give us stomach aches.
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@spiderdust (14756)
• San Jose, California
7 Feb 23
@vandana7 I think whether or not you become a criminal is due to personal choices... however, bacteria and parasites sometimes found in the gut can induce psychiatric symptoms.
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@LindaOHio (188285)
• United States
6 Feb 23
I have always been interested in the mind of a killer. I have read a lot of true crime. Ted Bundy is a serial killer that acted normal around his friends and acquaintances....yet he was a vicious killer.
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@xander6464 (45095)
• Wapello, Iowa
6 Feb 23
Our legal system is already starting to explore the idea of diet affecting behavior. we call it the Twinkie Defense.
Twinkie defense" is a derisive label for an improbable legal defense. It is not a recognized legal defense in jurisprudence, but a catch-all term coined by reporters during their coverage of the trial of defendant Dan White for the murders of San Francisco city Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. White's defense was that he suffered diminished capacity as a result of his depression, a symptom of which was a change in diet from healthy food to Twinkies and other sugary foods. Contrary to common belief, White's attorneys did not argue that the Twinkies were the cause of White's actions, but that their consumption was symptomatic of his underlying depression. The product itself was only mentioned in passing during the trial. White was convicted of voluntary manslaughter rather than first-degree murder, and served five years in prison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkie_defense
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@vandana7 (101733)
• India
6 Feb 23
Interesting. I now need to understand what is the difference between voluntary manslaughter and first-degree murder. Mood or no mood swings...depression or not......... murder is murder.....life sentence is called for, more so because there are genes that are leading to that behavior when some food that triggers those genes is consumed.
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@vandana7 (101733)
• India
6 Feb 23
@xander6464 No...I understood that...the word voluntary before manslaughter..defeated the meaning I felt.
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@xander6464 (45095)
• Wapello, Iowa
6 Feb 23
@vandana7 Manslaughter is generally unintentional....that's why we never charge drunk drivers with First Degree Murder.
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@vandana7 (101733)
• India
6 Feb 23
This is what was the terminology in that article. I found the article really interesting too. That said, either there are some bad bacteria...or some bad genes...that get triggered in presence of some conditions...someday in future humans would know this...
My mind however asks...why is it that animals like gators are aggressive. Do they have bad bacteria residing in their gut lining all the time...
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@vandana7 (101733)
• India
7 Feb 23
@RubyHawk That is the direction I want science to go into...not arms. Sigh...
We could correct people like Putin and Hitler with just a pill. Imagine...what a great world it would be.
Hope people get fed up of leaders like that, and put up posters of them wearing T-shirts... that read "I AM A BORING PERSONALITY".
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@aninditasen (17032)
• Raurkela, India
6 Feb 23
As a bio graduate I would say, genes do have a big role in a person and environment too.
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@aninditasen (17032)
• Raurkela, India
7 Feb 23
@vandana7 Food does control the hormones in our body and that's how one turns satvik, tamsik and rajasik. Therefore a balanced diet is very important.
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