funtensity
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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/The-Pros-to-Being-a-Psychopath-176019901.html
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What's the definition of "bad" again? If someone was compassionate, I don't know if I would label them "bad."
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/The-Pros-to-Being-a-Psychopath-176019901.html
Psychopath, AKA, ISTP.[/FONT][/COLOR]
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/The-Pros-to-Being-a-Psychopath-176019901.html
Psychopath, AKA, ISTP.[/FONT][/COLOR]
I don't get what someone who thinks the MBTI is BS is doing in the MBTI forums.
Moving on, when you put certain high functioning members of society in a brain scanner, their scans look just like psychopaths and criminals. So something is going on here. We can't explain this away so easily as saying "it's a sliding scale." We really don't understand what's going on yet..
I don't see how any of the offered traits would be useful. Psychopathy is incapacity to find value in other people, paired with an openness to wield aggression, while pursuing (sometimes) malignant ambition. This is the exact opposite of what social evolution has taught us to culturally value. As such, the blunt interpersonal traits commonly associated with psychopathy leave the individual alone and at a loss for how to relate.
Sure, a lack of guilt and the ability to project a veneer of intimidating self-confidence would seem nice, but would you honestly prefer it instead of emotional connection/depth in human relationships and a subsequent lifestyle of bitterness and frustration at never being able to quite fit in unless you put on an act?
Tongue-in-cheek articles like the OP only focus on the sexy traits of the disorder. The article doesn't even cite actual psychopaths in their examples - probably out of sensitivity and decorum (ironic) ...but please. Let's be clear here.
Why not talk about the horrible side of the disorder and the unimaginable pain the very worst examples of psychopaths have produced. Can the special forces crap; tell me about the many lives Ted Bundy forever disfigured. Sure, for every nightmare, there are 1,000 who exist in peace. But why mince words when discussing the disorder - why not pursue a balanced approach? Seems more like a platform than an examination.
It's what happens when pop culture/cinema interpose cliché over real-world disorder. Pulpy, one-sided fanboy gibberish.
We need the hard rough men patrolling our borders so we can sleep safe and sound in our beds at night.
Perhaps psychopathic values instilled in neurotypicals are even more dangerous than psychopaths.
Basically what he means is that there's a place in society for psychopaths - to be expendable wartime cannon fodder. (I'm taking my paraphrasing artistic license to some charming heights, mind you).Huh?
What a welcoming thread environment.
Really makes me want to contribute.