De-extreming the Extremist Mind
4 min readAug 22, 2022
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With very rare exceptions extremists are not born just as few people are born evil.
The very rare exception would be those genetically predisposed psychopaths from families with a high frequency of psychopathy. Fifty years ago a fair amount of attention was directed towards men born with the XYY chromosome abnormality referred to a Jacobs syndrome and thought to be correlated to poor impulse control and…