Sharing Characteristics of Psychopaths

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Who really interests me is minions of psychopaths. I can point to psychopathic mimicry behaviours in people who definitely weren't psychos, where no conscious signalling had occurred. I get how psychos see things - it's a messed up perspective but it is uniquely theirs and thus conceivable - but minions, who I'm starting to think comprise the majority of all people, must have no consciousness as we understand it. Zombies.

I sometimes think everyone else must seem like hypocrites to psychopaths. They don't get why some rules are more important than others, so they see us shrugging off disobediance (or even celebrating it) on some occasions while freaking out over things they do. And it must seem really stupid to them when someone tries to appeal to emotions they don't even have (kind of like the guy who tried to convince me not to be asexual).

Well, people are hypocrites, I don't think it necessarily takes psychopathy to realise that's part of human nature.

It's just "there" so I don't see the point of caring beyond that hypocrisy exists so my post isn't meant to criticise or request people to change.

If I look beyond what society says we're supposed to think to be "good":

It does look like hypocrisy if someone who's obviously been lied to and has been manipulated claims how free their will is and how difficult they are to influence. Everyone's like that all the time.

And then there's that issue with how people think they're good people, when they're not for thinking there are good and bad people in the first place. What makes a person "good"? People called "good" people and people calling themselves "good" people do things they call "bad".

It's like that whole compassion issue. People fully capable of compassion commit murder, rage wars and even the nicest people accidentally and intentionally hurt others quite often.

Compassion may be a double-edged sword, because it certainly doesn't automatically prevent people from inflicting damage on other living creatures. I don't understand why so many people would think that a lack of compassion automatically forces people to inflict damage on others if compassion doesn't prevent it either.

Rules are (or I think they are, if others would disagree) a construct that someone or a group of people have created. Of course it can look like hypocrisy to claim that some rules are more important than others (says who?) or even that rules have a universal importance.

Rules are given importance and meaning and power by people and they're big hints at these people's intentions and/or desires. One can choose to accept them and support them or refuse them.

Even life doesn't come with a neat tag saying "this is of value, treat it with care". It's a choice.

That's where hypocrisy comes in again. The easiest way to live is going with the flow and accepting that life has a value that changes depending on how people feel, the stupidest is denying all the others any value and the most difficult is to try to live by the idea that life is always precious.

I think most people go with #1, can't bother with thinking about who does #2 and #3 is set up for failure (but why not try anyway, life is set up for death too and that knowledge doesn't stop a lot of us from living).

So at this point you either accept that you don't get around hypocrisy in your life, be fine with existing in Wonderland and decide on a way of living in that madness or get annoyed with it and... I don't know? Go crazy? Take it out on people and do useless stuff to vent your anger and frustration and try to "enjoy" your made-up superiority? I have no idea actually.