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To: PCPOET7
The problem with sociopaths and psychopaths is that they ignore their consciences. They do stuff that seems crazy to us. But they are fully sane and hard to pin down, unless they run afoul of the law and are caught and sentenced and put away for a long time.

A friend of mine is a psychology professor who teaches one class per semester and has a full-time practice. We talked about this psychopath-sociopath thing and she said that they all tend to fool most people because they are charming and have figured out ways to push their advantage. But when it is all said and done the differences are just a matter of degree which they are still working on to establish. Both sociopaths and psychopaths operate their lives as if they had no conscience.

Think about your car speedometer is on the fritz. You realize that you can drive down the road as fast as you want with no indicator telling you that pedal to the medal just might not be a good idea. If a cop stops you, you can just blame the speedometer not working. That is what it is like for a person who ignores the internal indicator that tells them they are going too fast and they might kill someone.

These people are not really a problem to themselves. However, they are a problem to everyone they come in contact with.

No medication can help them. No counseling can help either. They are a mystery to all. Good thing we have jail cells for when they get truly out of line.

70 posted on 07/14/2018 12:19:06 PM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Slyfox

The conscience voice is from God. The unconscionable voice is from the more or less godless crowd. Strzok may not have dared do this without a crowd to hide in or behind.


72 posted on 07/14/2018 12:23:31 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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