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The thing that really scares me is that you could easily argue that everyone has a "little bit" of psychopathy in them -- see how car drivers in big cities trea
by wildjim 17y ago
The thing that really scares me is that you could easily argue that everyone has a "little bit" of psychopathy in them -- see how car drivers in big cities treat others on the road, see how some people go "too far" during war.
What threshold would/could you pick?
- tetha 17y agoI'd figure that you cannot pick a threshold. I am convinced that you can turn EVERYONE into a psychopath by pushing him enough, whereas 'pushing'depends on the person getting pushed. For myself, well, threaten people I love enough and make me desperate enough and I will probably snap, even though I am the calmest and most balanced person I know.
- barry-cotter 17y agoPyschopaths don't love anybody. it's not a synonym for bad/evil person, it's a constellation of correlated traits, but at a very rough approximation- A psychopath is someone who sees others as means not ends. Their existence is irrelevant except insofar as they serve his wants or needs, or prevents them being satisfied. A borderline psychopath, one of the people who was born that way inclined rather than straight born that way, and who was triggered by environment will probably be no more attached to any human being ever than you would be a to a pet.