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Probably being a Uighur or Tibetan in their respective regions regions. Also faces might correspond to certain disadvantaged ethnicities or groups. Or they migh
by devoply 10y ago
Probably being a Uighur or Tibetan in their respective regions regions. Also faces might correspond to certain disadvantaged ethnicities or groups. Or they might even correspond to a genotype that is expressed as a phenotype, so a genetic basis. We have identified a certain gene that makes aggression much more likely. And apparently it's more prevalent in African Americans in the US than others. But even that has context. In certain countries beating someone up, i.e. physical assault, is glossed over. Crime is highly subjective in terms of what people are willing to put up with... anything more than thou shalt not kill is highly subjective, and even that's ignored by military all around the world all the time.
Good quote:
Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride, "What do you mean by seizing the whole earth; because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, while you who does it with a great fleet are styled emperor".
- im3w1l 10y agoThey "controlled for race, gender, age and facial expressions". I wonder how well they did it though, it seems to may that the non-criminal faces in Fig 10, have a happier expression.
- tjalfi 10y agoThere is a similar quote in one of Poul Anderson's Flandry novels. "Crime is entirely a matter of degree. If you kill your neighbor and steal his property, you are a murderer and a thief. But if you gather together an army of lusty fellows in the name of honor and glory, kill a few million people, take their land, and hit up the survivors for taxes, then you are a conqueror and a hero, and your name goes into the history books."