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> If society tells you to go kill somebody and you do, you can't be a sociopath. That doesn't make sense. If society asked for volunteers to torture someone, t
by chrischen 15y ago
> If society tells you to go kill somebody and you do, you can't be a sociopath.
That doesn't make sense. If society asked for volunteers to torture someone, the first to step up would very likely be a sociopath.
- kiiski 15y agoI think the point is that while a sociopath might be more likely to volunteer for it, volunteering for it doesn't make one a sociopath.
- chrischen 15y agoIt seems as if he was trying to define sociopathy as purely the act of doing what's socially unacceptable, and that if society condones it then it's by definition not sociopathic. However I don't believe that's true since gov != society and even society can be conditioned into sociopaths. I'd say I consider sociopathic as anything that's harmful to society, regardless of how society perceives it.