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To: GraceG
All psychopaths are not evil.

they make the best soldiers, surgeons etc.

they just don't have feelings of sympathy/empathy. However, they CAN be moral.

3 posted on 08/04/2009 3:23:33 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner
This is one of Hollywood's favorite myths--turn a psychopath inside out and you get a fearless hero. Doesn't work that way.If the "Dirty Dozen" had been real, they would have killed their officers at the first opportunity and deserted.

Psychopathy by definition includes history of a variety of "immoral" behaviors.

7 posted on 08/04/2009 3:38:10 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Mariner

Some psychopaths are adventure nuts like Steve Fossett and Marco Polo. Some psychopaths are evil and bad things like Lori Drew and Joseph Stalin. It depends on how one channels it. One reason I believe evil is a choice people make. Psychopath and psychotic are two different things.


12 posted on 08/04/2009 4:41:12 PM PDT by Ptarmigan (God Hates Bunnies. God Loves Ptarmigans)
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