LiveUninhibited
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Here's another Gwendoline:
The Psychopath: The Mask of Sanity
My point is; does someone like a psychopath who has no capacity for empathy have choice when it comes to doing hateful things to others?
I think not. Psychopaths don't respond the same way others of us do to other people's suffering. They have to fake emotions.
It's so idiotic that they decided to use psychopath and sociopath interchangeably. It makes much more sense to use sociopath for people who "have no conscience" but are not out of touch with the basics of reality, such as Timothy McVeigh. And psychopath for people who do evil things because they are out of touch with the basics of reality. You know, like when burning bushes start talking to you and the same voice tells you to kill your son or commit genocide against the Canaanites, like Moses.