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Before everyone gets too carried away by this brain research, I want to sound a word of caution. A while back, NPR did a story about either DNA or brain research concerning criminals. One of the reporters had his brain/DNA analyzed and was horrified to find he fit the protocol for being a vile criminal. Unfortunately, NPR has a worse search engine even than CD, and I could not find the story, though I've been looking. Anyway, the reporter's point, supported by the researchers, was that just because one's brain has these "markers", that doesn't really mean anything. One of these articles I wish to heck I'd bookmarked. (I checked all my bookmarks, believe me.)
I absolutely get what you're saying about DNA, but they're talking more about behavioral changes with traumatic brain injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)--the degenerative neurological disease found in people who've sustained continued head trauma from sports like boxing and football. The researchers in Boston asking for the autopsy are some of the top in that field internationally.
EDIT--If you go to the alzforum link, evidently the researchers in Boston have established some sort of brain bank of people suffering from the disease for research purposes. They outline the symptoms, which includes increasingly aggressive, erratic behavior. It's a form of brain trauma induced dementia.
Thank you so much! I'll rep you if I can, and if I can't, I'll do it eventually. Everyone should read this before getting too hung up on this brain stuff.
That's not to say that the defense won't try to use some information like this. I'd like to be on that jury. (Don't live in MA.)
NPR's site is horrible to navigate due to so much stuff. Just google the name or context of the article you are looking for in your web browser and add "NPR" on the end of that...voila! Glad I could help. It drives me crazy when I cannot find an article that I want to retrieve.
In Russia, the brothers’ aunt said that a Boston-area mosque has refused to hold a funeral for Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
American authorities have told the family that they can have Tsarnaev’s body, and an uncle approached the mosque to request a burial and funeral but was declined, said the aunt, Patimat Suleimanova.
Earlier this week, Imam Talal Eid of the Islamic Institute of Boston, a separate institution, told The Huffington Post: “I would not be willing to do a funeral for him. This is a person who deliberately killed people. There is no room for him as a Muslim.”
I'd rep you too but I can't--it's all fascinating stuff!
Getting back to the OP...It t seems that the mother might have been talking about her younger son as being killed, not him killing someone else...
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The mother said of her surviving son “If they are going to kill him. I don’t care. My oldest son is killed, so I don’t care. I don’t care if my youngest son is going to be killed today.” Anybody who ever called their own mother the worst mother in the world owes her an apology. To be fair, the woman is distraught. But you get the feeling that she is constantly distraught. Mom added “I want the world to hear this. And, I don’t care if I am going to get killed too.” Well then, you’re in the right place, living in Dagestan.
I absolutely get what you're saying about DNA, but they're talking more about behavioral changes with traumatic brain injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)--the degenerative neurological disease found in people who've sustained continued head trauma from sports like boxing and football. The researchers in Boston asking for the autopsy are some of the top in that field internationally.
EDIT--If you go to the alzforum link, evidently the researchers in Boston have established some sort of brain bank of people suffering from the disease for research purposes. They outline the symptoms, which includes increasingly aggressive, erratic behavior. It's a form of brain trauma induced dementia.
Yes, I'm aware of that stuff, too, as I work with adolescents, including a lot who do sports. Concussions are receiving a lot of attention right now. However, Tamerlan is dead, and I doubt we will have access to his brain. It will be very hard to prove he did anything d/t brain injury.
Check out Exodus 22:20, Leviticus 20:1-5, Deuteronomy 17:2-7 and see what the Old Testament says about worshiping false idols (meaning anything other than "our" God). There's plenty of rules about HAVING to kill people for failing to follow our faith in the Old Testament too.
Seems common sense would prevail.....strange people use the worst of the Bible toward their fellow human.
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There's plenty of rules about HAVING to kill people for failing to follow our faith in the Old Testament too.