sonny,
You claim in this thread that if we had the identical DNA and environmental stimuli as a murder/rapist that we'd become murderers/rapists. Let's explore this ideology...
Say I had an identical twin and we were raised with identical stimuli. Now, let me think of something totally off the wall that I've never thought of before: I'm going to take off my clothes, paint myself blue, and hope down the middle of the street on one foot singing God Bless America. I commence to do so, and I get arrested for indescent exposure and disturbing the peace.
Now, because I randomly chose to take off my clothes, paint myself blue, and hope down the middle of the street on one foot singing God Bless America and got arrested, my identical twin raised under identical stimuli would think to do the same thing and get arrested as well?
Highly unlikely. I created this scenario at random through my imagination and consciously acted on it.
If you had an identical twin raised in an identical universe they would have come up with the same thought and acted on it. Identical means identical. Identical genes. Identical enviornment. Identical brain. Identical thoughts. Identical behavior. Period. This is not hard to understand.
And you do not "randomly" think up anything. What you subjectively believe is random is actually the consequence of a very complex matrix of stimuli and neurological events. (Of course, someone could say that at the quantum level there is a randomness that occurs. Two things: One, there is no evidence that events at the quantum level have macro consequences on our thoughts. At least that hasn't been proven. Two, if there is a quantum randomness that in no way gives you free will. It only means that there are causal elements helping to produce brain states which are beyond your control)
I hate to bow out of a discussion, but I have other things I have to attend to. Sonnyboy, I highly recommend you do some reading on the brain from a reputible scientist. You seem to not have the greatest understanding of how DNA and envionrment translate into brain states. Please don't take that as a put down. It's only a recommendation.
B.
