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No not at all. Every single parent choosing to breed sociopaths can lead to an unstable society that eats itself. There are many ways such ideas can end in tota
by thewarrior 5y ago
No not at all. Every single parent choosing to breed sociopaths can lead to an unstable society that eats itself. There are many ways such ideas can end in total catastrophe.
Being a sociopath is not an evolutionarily stable strategy.
- champagnois 5y agoPrisons have many violent sociopaths. Studies on this are pretty clear. There is, however, the weird outliers. There are those people with similar brain patterns that are not of the violent variety. They seem to succeed in business, for example. I wouldn't be surprised if, for example, Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk or Linus Torvalds (essentially the tech greats) were all sociopathic in some way. FWIW, I am not a trained psychiatrist and am only speaking from the sort of popular psychology news articles and documentaries and TED talks I have seen on this particular topic.
- thewarrior 5y agoIf everyone was a sociopath it would fall apart pretty quickly. You can read up on evolutionarily stable strategies.
- captainredbeard 5y ago> If everyone was a sociopath it would fall apart pretty quickly What if 1% of the population were sociopaths?
- thewarrior 5y agoWell the suggestion here is that everyone uses eugenics to turn everyone into sociopaths. It’s cooperation that keeps the world going with periodic oscillations around it.