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Sociopathy is not rare¹, nor entirely maladaptive. Objectivism (a school of thought whose name begs the question) is an attractive philosophical stance for folk

• dmfdmf 11y ago
  Your footnotes notwithstanding, your comment makes no sense even on its own terms. Regardless of their feelings or lack thereof, what sociopaths and psychopaths have in common is they don't survive by reason and creating value but by using and manipulating others. Their method of survival is acknowledged as pathological. Anyone who had an even rudimentary understanding of Rand's ideas would know that she repudiated any such behavior but the smears and lies continue. But more to the point, a sociopath would not go through the trouble of developing a whole new ethical theory when the dominant ethic (altruism) is perfectly suited to the aims of a sociopath, i.e. the ethics of people using people.