Post-birth abortion doesn't exist

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[u/MelloBea16]

Republicans feel like a different species of Humans. Utterly dumb and braindead!

[u/clonedhuman → u/MelloBea16]

They are not a different species--they're just the lowest form of our species. They genuinely (and measurably) lack the features that separate us most distinctly from the rest of the apes like creativity, empathy, feelings of community, the ability to rationally and consistently process information, and so on.

Creativity and imagination are some of the most recently evolved distinctly human characteristics, a higher human function located (more or less) in the prefrontal cortex, the 'newest' part of the brain that separates us from apes. The prefrontal cortex is "[o]ne of the last places in the brain to mature [and] is thought of as the 'personality center' and is the cortical region that makes us uniquely human." The prefrontal cortex also "controls much of the brain’s creativity, a factor in bolstering one’s imagination."

A study from 2021 that measured political attitudes correlating with damage to different sections of the brain found

...people with frontal lesions held more conservative (or less liberal) beliefs than those with anterior temporal lobe lesions or no lesions. Additional analyses predicting ideology by extent of damage provided convergent evidence that greater damage in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex—but not the amygdala—was associated with greater conservatism.

The Conservative mindset not only correlates with damage to the prefrontal cortex, but an inability/failure to mature fully and actually develop the prefrontal cortex. It's why they lack empathy--to empathize, one must be able to imagine experiencing life as someone else, and the Conservatives are quite literally incapable of using their imaginations like that. It's a higher human function, one of the very few things separating us from the apes, that Conservatives simply don't have.

[u/BizSilver5013 → u/clonedhuman]

I wonder, then, why people with frontal lobe dysfunction due to autism or ADHD tend to be more left-leaning than average.

Is it because they were treated like shit from day one? Or is it because it's a different type of dysfunction from people with frontal lobe lesions?

[u/clonedhuman → u/BizSilver5013]

I think the 'failure to develop the frontal lobes' is likely the culprit for the strong correlation between that lack of development (our outright damage) and Conservative politics, but I'm not 100% sure. Conservatives tend to stop developing their brains as teenagers, while most of us keep developing our frontal lobe functions into our 20s.