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>> But her excuses, or lack of them, riled me and I told her she represented everything that was wrong with the country. Bold thing to say to a sociopath with
by moron4hire 9y ago
>> But her excuses, or lack of them, riled me and I told her she represented everything that was wrong with the country.
Bold thing to say to a sociopath with a gun.
- wavefunction 9y agoShe was just a mass murderer. I don't see any indications of sociopathy. I bet most people could be turned to this life given her circumstances and environment.
- jacquesm 9y agoThe two biggest mistakes people tend to repeat are thinking that (1) it can't happen here and (2) if it does happen here I'll be different.
- thret 9y agoIt's our society that is better, not our people.
- cal5k 9y agoIt'll never go to zero, but in a well-off society you see mental health issues accounting for a lot of crime. In poor or chaotic societies, there is the added element of otherwise normal people forced by circumstance into doing terrible things.
- jacquesm 9y agoSocieties are not on some kind of monotonically increasing slope, they can regress and they can do so with astonishing speed.
- AlaskaBuilding 9y agoOurs feels like it is doing that right now. Even separate from the political issues, look at how many homeless people are walking my city who mumble, stare at the sky and are clearly suffering some kind of mental deficit, possibly on drugs too. There is no place for them to go for treatment.
- ShabbosGoy 9y agoSociety cannot erase the demons of our nature. At best you achieve a level of control that is fleeting.
- moron4hire 9y agoShe accepted payment from a friend to murder the friend's boyfriend's other girlfriend. Not only that, she decapitated and dismembered the body. Did we read the same article? Having a "just doing a job" attitude about killing other people is sociopathic.
- dp-tyvek 9y agoYou don't have to be a sociopath to do horrific things. A lot of people are capable of doing the same in the right (wrong) circumstances.
- greekyogurt21 9y agoA lot of people don't like to hear that. It's simmilar to when people call Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, etc. "monsters", they weren't monsters, they were human. Humans are capable of some pretty fucked up things
- learc83 9y agoIf what she said about killing the first person was correct, she felt remorse. She had a conscious, she just forced herself to ignore it until killing stopped bothering her. Historical genocides, and massacres show that either there are a lot more latent sociopaths out there than we ever dreamed of, or normal people can become desensitized to killing.
- make3 9y agoThinking only sociopaths can do really terrible things is likely very wrong. Normal people can decide over some time to switch off empathy, or to work against it. This needs to be understood.
- LordKano 9y agoAnger, pain or desperation will make otherwise normal people do some very abnormal things. Even in the most "civilized" and wealthy of western democracies, 1 week of no food, water and electricity would lead to absolute bedlam. Three months of that kind of desperation would lead to otherwise normal people killing and robbing strangers. When the crisis abates, they'll be able to rationalize away their behavior because it was necessary.
- cuckcuckspruce 9y agoThe most dangerous person in the world is someone with nothing to lose. If you have nothing left to lose then you aren't constrained by worrying about tomorrow.
- jimmywanger 9y ago"An empty stomach has no conscience". I would argue that neither does a stiff dick. If you look at Maslov's hierarchy, if you can't fulfill your basic needs at the bottom of the pyramid, you're not really looking for self-actualization.
- jonnybgood 9y ago> Normal people can decide over some time to switch off empathy, or to work against it. Yes, and all it typically takes to turn off empathy is believing they're doing the right thing against "bad" people.
- moron4hire 9y agoI don't think there is any evidence to show that sociopathy is only an innate attribute and that it is not learnable. The only definition of sociopathy I can find is based on behavior. So if you act like a sociopath, it doesn't really matter how many nightmares you had on the way to getting there, you're a sociopath.
- erikb 9y agoI think this is the kind of stupidity that women actually filter for, not filter against. Because that kind of stupidity can only come with a save and comparatively rich life.