Psychopathy need not be a disadvantage

Date: June 3, 2016

Source: Universität Bonn

Summary: Persons with marked psychopathy are considered callous, cold, unrepentant, dishonest, and impulsive. At work, therefore, they can endanger the success of their entire team – at least that is the popular conception. But some people with psychopathic traits can also be different, research shows, because not all "psychopaths" are the same. Instead, at least two different facets of personality come together in psychopathy. They can occur together, but do not have to.

James Fallon is a good person to listen whe, he talks. He is SPOT ON in relating The baffling and frustrating way normal people operate.

I really can't wait till science primarily is using brain scans to determine psychopathy and THEN checklists for these types of studies.

I read this article and my head goes..

"Sigh. This sucks. These types of articles are the ones that make people find psychopaths "cool" or even safe and that is dangerous as hell." The people interviewed understand politics. They know how to keep their mouth shut.

Then

A HUGELY GIANT MONSTROUS part of me wants to run with this, give myself a huge pat on the back for being an awesome person and say and say YES I've trained those traits out of me.

But the side of me who is reality driven, grew up with this genetic glitch way too prominent in my family, both types, must be honest with myself, at the very least, and instead, sighs, giggles profusely at the naive people and says...

Haha no...I promise Ms. Researcher, They all occur together. The caveat is can the traits be shelved to work in a social situation.

The biggest glitch of all is that empathy hurts. Fear hurts. So what you actually have are people who understand or remind themselves that they have a tool, turning off empathy, and that they aren't entitled to it. They aren't the normal humans and that used willy nilly, this tool hurts and alienates people we need and want and love around us.

The answer is yes, they do "have" to, the brain science is showing over and over the propensity to violence is determined by upbringing and traumatic events or the lack thereof. Its not what traits exist, it's how big the black hole is when psychopathy does exist.

The reason why "we" are good firefighters, heros, doctors etc is because we understand the system of clicking empathy on and off to gain information and insight as opposed to mostly off for the ones with less social skills.

These traits aren't missing. They are shelved. Its a cognitive, ongoing, constant, deliberate thought process.

The brain research that showed that psychopaths can be asked to turn empathy on goes both ways, we can require it of ourselves as a "check system".

I would call it morals but it's not.

Utilitarianism is a better word for it. Humanity works better when we work as a team.

The fact that we have have a thought process that makes us able to let life and emotions hurt so we can learn and then shut that off to be cold and calculating for a altruistic reason, doesn't mean the traits don't co exist. It means we decided that we can use our powers for good stuff.

We remove feeling other peoples pain so we can be calm around them hurting.

We understand the ability to emphasize is The better strategy and usually mostly for ourselves to keep ourselves in line.

Credentials..we have a number of diagnosed psychopaths on both sides. Ranging from a couple in prison, a few goofy but explosive crab asses to my great grandfather who helped pioneer children's anaesthesia to his son who beat his kids, did legal morphine and enjoyed his elderly patients and their various ways of dying to the couple of veterinarians, all the way to a few who fought in various wars. There is a wide, almost black and white variation in families...either lots of abuse or none.

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