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Prisons have many violent sociopaths. Studies on this are pretty clear. There is, however, the weird outliers. There are those people with similar brain patter
by champagnois 5y ago
Prisons 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.