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Punishment has been shown to be ineffective and ignorant of ancestral/intergenerational trauma being passed epigenetically. This is a way we're societally creating trauma and poisoning our gene pool. It's literally suicidal, from a long-term perspective.

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You understand that you are literally pushing a form of Lysenkoism, right? There is no such thing as trauma being passed down epigenetically.

I think that this is less clear-cut than you might expect. [0] talks about "Dutch Hunger Winter Syndrome" as a heavily studied counterexample.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_epigenetic_i...

> ancestral/intergenerational trauma being passed epigenetically

Can you cite any sources for this?

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.0080...

This was the first thing that came up when I searched google for "epigenetic markers of trauma." It highlights childhood trauma. I'll go ahead and note that one aspect of incarceration culture is numerous children losing the presence of a caregiver. This is for sure a traumatic experience for many and a singular way the government is suicidal.

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