TypoC Psychopaths

[Salomé]

Have you been targeted by a psychopath on this forum (or elsewhere online)?

Please share your experiences.

Here, or else PM me.

Ta.

(If you're not sure what a psychopath is, please refer to this thread.)

 

[Riva]

We wouldn't know a psychopath if we meet one in RL let alone online. They are social chameleons. the nicest person we meet in RL could be the most dangerous psychopath. But eventually he/she would get caught. But online??? Oh almost never.

 

[INA]

But online??? Oh almost never.

So how come that is the only place I've encountered the psychos?

 

[RaptorWizard]

Being an Antisocial psychopath would be pretty dang freaking amazing!

There would be no limits, as the law would mean nothing.

Only losers follow the law just because society says you should.

 

[Totenkindly]

^^^Yeah, I think I'm reporting RaptorWizard.

Oh wait, I was supposed to PM that???? gosh, sorry.

 

[Jaguar]

Too many psychos to list.

 

[ndovjtjcaqidthi]

Don't look at me. *whistles innocently* (No, seriously)

 

[Jonny]

I think it’s pretty clear that many people who are otherwise pleasant and courteous in their interactions with others exhibit a callousness and psychopathic behavior when interacting with people via the internet. If psychopathy exists on a spectrum, perhaps these folks would fall somewhere in the borderlands between normalcy and psychopathy. Those who happen to extend the same degree of courtesy to people on the net that they do to people in person might have some added ability to sympathize with the “hypothetical” or “ethereal” person.

I find myself unable to eat at a vacant or failing restaurant without feeling terrible for the owner, or pass a homeless person on the street without wondering how he ended up in such a bad place. In effect, I imagine a backstory and create a person with which to sympathize. Similarly, I have a very hard time not being considerate of people online (when I’m in the proper mindset), because I tend to fill in the information gaps to make them a whole person in my mind.

 

[jcloudz]

I think it’s pretty clear that many people who are otherwise pleasant and courteous in their interactions with others exhibit a callousness and psychopathic behavior when interacting with people via the internet. If psychopathy exists on a spectrum, perhaps these folks would fall somewhere in the borderlands between normalcy and psychopathy. Those who happen to extend the same degree of courtesy to people on the net that they do to people in person might have some added ability to sympathize with the “hypothetical” or “ethereal” person.

I find myself unable to eat at a vacant or failing restaurant without feeling terrible for the owner, or pass a homeless person on the street without wondering how he ended up in such a bad place. In effect, I imagine a backstory and create a person with which to sympathize. Similarly, I have a very hard time not being considerate of people online (when I’m in the proper mindset), because I tend to fill in the information gaps to make them a whole person in my mind.

oh you feel that way too? the feeling is even worse when i go to family restaurants and the parents are aging and kids are trying to keep things together

 

[Lark]

oh you feel that way too? the feeling is even worse when i go to family restaurants and the parents are aging and kids are trying to keep things together

Business opportunity!

 

[Lark]

Being an Antisocial psychopath would be pretty dang freaking amazing!

There would be no limits, as the law would mean nothing.

Only losers follow the law just because society says you should.

I'm not sure I agree with that, society includes a lot of people with special or superior knowledge, experience or learning, society can be a damn good guide a lot of the time and besides society hasnt existed as a restraining influence for a long time, if it exists at all now its permissive or supportive in the first instance whatever or whoever you happen to be or choose to do.

You're right that a psychopath isnt lawful, they're liable to ask will I get caught, not is this right or wrong but that they ask whether or not they will get caught means they engage in consequential thinking and rationalisations, which means that while they are not lawful they are not chaotic.

 

[Lark]

The iTunes updater is psychopathic.

Or perhaps just a pitiless machine.

 

[Rasofy]

I've seen 2, I think. Both women. They're not regulars though.

 

[Glycerine]

I think one member publicly admitted that they had sociopathic tendencies... if I remember correctly.

 

[Salomé]

This thread manage to accumulate some tepid air, I see.

I think it’s pretty clear that many people who are otherwise pleasant and courteous in their interactions with others exhibit a callousness and psychopathic behavior when interacting with people via the internet. If psychopathy exists on a spectrum, perhaps these folks would fall somewhere in the borderlands between normalcy and psychopathy. Those who happen to extend the same degree of courtesy to people on the net that they do to people in person might have some added ability to sympathize with the “hypothetical” or “ethereal” person.

I don't think you understand psychopathy.

Similarly, I have a very hard time not being considerate of people online (when I’m in the proper mindset), because I tend to fill in the information gaps to make them a whole person in my mind.

Are you serious? I can never tell. But I've seen you be remarkably rude - it's why I still have you on ignore, it's why you were banned - so I'm not sure you deserve those back pats you're giving yourself.

 

[cascadeco]

There was one former member who was really creepy to me and pretty unstable/manipulative... I think this person made his rounds trying to find people whose empathy he could take advantage of.

Good that I lacked some of that required empathy, lol.

 

[SilkRoad]

There was one former member who was really creepy to me and pretty unstable/manipulative... I think this person made his rounds trying to find people whose empathy he could take advantage of.

Good that I lacked some of that required empathy, lol.

Yeah, I remember him...

 

[Lark]

I think one member publicly admitted that they had sociopathic tendencies... if I remember correctly.

If that was me I really mean to stop telling people that story, it was years ago

 

[Salomé]

There was one former member who was really creepy to me and pretty unstable/manipulative... I think this person made his rounds trying to find people whose empathy he could take advantage of.

Good that I lacked some of that required empathy, lol.

InvisibleJim?

 

[Nicodemus]

I'm going to make [MENTION=294]The Ü[/MENTION]'s day by mentioning him here.