nephets wrote:
Sociopathy is, however, strongly correlated with success in life, so it has not been selected out by evolution. It is also amazing the number of females who cannot spot the sociopath, so they multiply. Who hasn't seen women who are attracted to the 'bad boy' type? It's a truism. Having said that, millions of people of both sexes are often prepared to follow these people, politically, committing horrible crimes for them. Lenin (ordered the deaths of hundreds of thousands), Hitler (30-40 million), Stalin (anywhere up to 50 million), Castro (impoverished an entire nation, killed thousands), Mao (up 70 million), Pol Pot (20% of the population of his country); these people leave scars on history.
Yeah it's amazing how people are attracted to sociopaths and allow themselves to be easily manipulated by them. I really believe it's because all sociopaths are able to figure people out and then tell them exactly what they want to hear.
Because the REAL truth is that people don't actually want to believe the truth if it's inconvenient for them and they only hate liars when they get caught lying. Sociopaths are all very aware of this and that is how they are able to manipulate and trick people.
30 Sep 2018, 11:05 am
