Strange answers to the psychopath test - Jon Ronson 

Psychopaths are harmful for society in general but had a higher survival chance in the wild.

Kosaro Its lonely but that's the only downside. Although a low intelligence one will have an extremely hard time. A high intelligence one will learn how to act but it will lead to an isolated life.

Nyx & Hemera I disagree. You can be a psychopath who has a logically based morality. In fact logical morality is a better way of approaching it then anything in the past...

Dexter Lecter Isn't that a sociopath?

Nyx & Hemera I could be wrong but my understanding is that a psychopath is some one born with the condition and a sociopath is some one that was put through trauma so bad that they developed the condition. I personally think that an empathy is universal and psychologists are full of shit to assume some one doesn't have an empathy. I think that they can shut theirs down and are prone to creating fantasies that merge way too close with reality. Honestly though I am not sure what the DSM says in regards to the differences but that would be the source to consult for broadly accepted answers. Most of the serial killers that I've studied have had tramatic childhoods and once caught they say that parents need to pay better attention to kids and respect their feelings instead of treating them badly, that to me implies that they do have a conscious. Ted Bundy was speaking out against porn before he was executed. Interesting enough, violent rape porn used to be illegal until Obama administration shut down the part of the justice department that monitors that. Rick Santorum was the only person to speak out about it and he got ridiculed big time by the ignorant liberals. Not saying liberals are ignorant but generally the ones with an agenda seem to be for whatever reason.

i think it´s the best one for this talk

Caleb Sanders why he didnt go?

+Caleb Sanders why didn't he go?

+Caleb Sanders Tony might of thought that he was 'repaying' him for what he's done, rejecting that says 'you don't need to repay me' or 'I helped, I don't expect payment'. Maybe just me :P

Flori F is what would you have done ? went to the bar i’m so curious

Asher Showalter what would you have done ? went to the bar i’m so curious

+Calvin Cuff He doesn't back this up. There is nothing that suggests that these people exist more or less in capitalist societies. No data at all.

all ted talks are based on bogus emotional humanitarian appeals

Chandler Booker They've always existed. Sad part is that they get away with calling it "science" these days

I sincerely hope he is just quoting the Scientologist guy.

Not all sociopaths are smart, they're like normal people in that regard, some are well adjusted some are awkward. Also, impulsive thoughts are normal (I don't know if you have them or if you just take time out of your day to think about killing, either way, no offense meant)

Neither feel for others. Psychopaths are born that way, sociopaths are created or turned.

gray areas can mean undetermined. jon probably didn't go to the bar because he knew something would happen. alcohol does weird things to people, which was probably why tony landed in jail after a fight in a bar.

Dexter Lecter Harvard has a term for this grey area... They call it an "almost" psychopath.

***** He is blissfully mixing the four. He is including the symptoms of the "other categories" into "psychopathy". The result is confusion and disillusionment towards psychology in general. Psychology is not perfect, but not in the way he is describing. This is just a person who has not sufficiently understood the topics.

+Favilla Morty How would you define the difference between sociopathy and psychopathy?

***** Sociopaths lack empathy too. One main difference is that while a psychopath engages in cold, calculated, remorseless destruction; the sociopath exhibits more impulsive tendencies towards destruction or might not even care for calculated destruction and harm. The other proposed main difference is a genetical versus environmental factor, but this does not have too many takers at the moment As a general rule, sociopaths prefer to cause untold suffering and strife without getting directly physical. Psychopaths don't mind causing untold suffering and strife through direct physical means. I have come across all combination of these 4 kinds of aforementioned monsters. Co-morbidity is high but some were pure variants too.

+mike oneil few could argue that stalin did anything stricly political....

That's just Daft Punk setting up for the after-show

He was scared, because of the split the marriage and going to jail indecent, this guy might be thinking maybe he is a full psychopath.

or maybe he just didn´t feel comfortable with it. there are plenty of reasons, why we wouldn´t do that. i think his point is that either the decision to meet or to avoid him could be evidence for us being a psychopath.

My 20p, I think the point he was trying to make was although Tony was labelled a psychopath, claimed he wasn't and even after his release and somewhat proof of him in actual fact not being a psychopath, he's been labelled and stigmatized, there's a part of him that thinks he is a psychopath even if he's proved to everyone that he isn't, it's a big issue with the far left playing identity politics and labelling everyone, sticking everyone in there own little box when that box can be divided up infinitely, it's a dangerous game that can cause the opposite of what the left stand for, that is, division and not unity.

I think the reason why he didnt go was that he himself was uncertain whether the guy was sane or not because all the symptoms were so mixed and hard to diagnose, so he was simply scared

Would you say you aren't empathetic to TED talks and want to manipulate them? ;)