[ExI] Implications of Sociopath Testing

Damien Sullivan phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu
Thu Sep 11 02:42:09 UTC 2008


On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 01:10:05AM +0200, Stefano Vaj wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:34 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It is possible for psychopaths to become successful in many lines of
> > work.
> 
> Sure. But as long as an organism is perfectly adapted to its
> environment, to define its features as "pathological" is little more
> than a scientific veneer on a moral judgment (that I may even share,

Though here the environment consists primarily of other people, so the
adaptiveness is relative to what they're like and what society is like.

-xx- Damien X-) 



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