[extropy-chat] Faculty X

[Ned Late]

Sociopaths as well as Psychopaths?
Dirk, your post is a sobering one, disturbing. But I
would like to point you to the existence of those who
DO understand in depth what is they lack, as well as
knowing the words for 'it'; what effects are manifest
in others; and, yes, tend to consider those who also
possess the faculty in different form to be
irrational, enslaved. However in the free falling
atmosphere of discourse one has to make a stand or at
least a precarious decision, so as to avoid the queasy
sensation of being a weathervane buffeted by contrary
winds. Intellectuals & savants have to make bad
judgement calls all the time, under the pressure of
time constraints.
Beyond this my limited but hyperdriven imagination is
nonplussed. I'm stumped.

> Their lives are both made easier in some
> circumstances, and more 
> difficult in others because they cannot understand
> in any depth what it 
> is they lack. They know the words for it, what
> effects are manifest in 
> other people, and tend to consider those who possess
> faculty X  
> themselves be irrational and enslaved by it. They
> have learned to work 
> around such foibles in others and even exploit them
> for their own 
> benefit. They feel themselves to be a superior kind
> of person because 
> they lack this obviously useless baggage.
> 
> When X =  conscience we call these people
> psychopaths
> When X = spirituality we call these people atheists
> 
> -- 
> Dirk
> 
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> 
> 
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