Should psychopathy be eliminated?
I don't see a moral justification for that. How do you justify punishing people for who they are, not what they do? You might have a point if you could prove a perfect correlation between the test and future behaviour that would warrant a life sentence. You fail to show that.
Someone said that psychopaths and sociopaths aren't actually recognised. This is true, neither term is in the DSM or ICD and the closest equivalent is "anti-social personality disorder".
The homicidal triad was quite popular at one time but is today considered an urban myth: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog ... urban-myth
I don't see a moral justification for that. How do you justify punishing people for who they are, not what they do? You might have a point if you could prove a perfect correlation between the test and future behaviour that would warrant a life sentence. You fail to show that.
... and even then, you run into the Minority Report problem, in which knowing you will be accused of murder (for example) changes your behaviour.
Because I had never heard of that before, I tried to look it up. I found this:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1524838018764164
I'm shocked at all this hate for another form of ND. Certainly the accommodations for this group needs to be quite different than for us. The ones who do the worse may end up in jail, etc. The ones that do the best end up as bad politicians and CEOs for irresponsible corporations. It's hard to decide which group does the most damage to society. These people need to understand themselves and make life choices that keep themselves out of trouble. Yeah, I know, some chance that's ever going to happen. Here is an interview with one who claims he does live his life this way An Interview with a Sociopath (Antisocial Personality Disorder and Bipolar)
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Can I stir the pot a little more? As I said, "psychopathy" is likely to overlap with other, more valid conditions. And I can think of one specific group of people who, if they turn to crime, are likely to get slapped with the "psychopath" label.
Us.
"Subject displays little capacity for empathy...."
(...also, I'm being a tiny bit manipulative here. I'll stop it.)
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Because I had never heard of that before, I tried to look it up. I found this:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1524838018764164
Your right, the official psyche jargon is the McDonald triad.But you get the point.
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Not today but remember that original paper
Die autistischen psychopaten im kindasalter meaning autistic psychopathy in childhood by Hans Asperger
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Die autistischen psychopaten im kindasalter meaning autistic psychopathy in childhood by Hans Asperger
Asperger's "psychopaten" did not have the English meaning of psychopath. The English meaning always struck me as wrong. Sociopath is much clearer.
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OR, Everything you do to avoid committing a murder means that you are unable to prevent a loved one from being murdered by someone else.
OR, In your haste to get away from PreCrime officers, you run over someone who later dies from his injuries.
OR, ...
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Die autistischen psychopaten im kindasalter meaning autistic psychopathy in childhood by Hans Asperger
Asperger's "psychopaten" did not have the English meaning of psychopath. The English meaning always struck me as wrong. Sociopath is much clearer.
So when Asperger used the word psychopathen,if he did not mean psychopathy,then was meant.The English translation of his original paper is autistic psychopathy in childhood.
Psychopath and sociopath is splitting semantic hairs.The psychology profession has never definitively differentiated the difference between the two.
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It’s more like he meant a generalized psychological or developmental “pathology,” in my view.
But he described a developmental pathology marked by social isolation and poor social skills.
And used the term autism, because at the time (since debunked) he wrongfully thought he was dealing with early childhood schizophrenia.This is why he said psychopathen im kindasalter,because he wrongfully believed he was dealing with childhood sociopaths.
Much of early autism theory has been debunked but it goes to these early doctors state of mind.
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