Lambert wrote:Lady Murasaki wrote:^^to both guest and Lamby, I'm not saying psychopathy is a bad thing because everyone has the potential to do harm
Is it the psychopathy part that makes them driven or is that the part that makes them commit the crime?
I agree being cold can be an advantage in certain areas of life but to be so cold that you would murder another is the part that could be 'tweaked', surely?
Lamby, you have written them off but you don't know about how successfully some have been 'tweaked' to be less murderous because there's no statistical evidence for it. ie. A crime was not committed.
It's not that I've written them off. I'm just telling you that you can't turn a psychopath into a non-psychopath. Remember, 'psychopath' is not a medical diagnosis. The term refers to a specific collection of personality traits. Someone who exhibits psychopathic behaviour could most likely be diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder, which is kind of, but not quite, the 'official' medical diagnosis for psychopathy. A diagnosis of ASPD requires a history of antisocial and/or criminal behaviour. Where I agree is that behaviour can possibly be altered via therapy, but that's not the same as turning someone into a non-psychopath.
By the way, here's an interesting little test for people to take. It's called the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, and is considered a fairly decent measurement of someone's psychopathic traits: https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/LSRP.php
I wonder if certain societies have more criminal psychopaths than others. I imagine you wouldn't get many in a monastery.
Does a competitive society produce more criminal psychospaths?