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[–] 49 points 7 months ago (12 children)

Polymarket is one of the largest prediction markets in the world, where users can wager their money on the likelihood of future events, using cryptocurrency, debit or credit cards, and bank transfers.

So this is a market place where rich people can bet on how gruesome poor people can die in war zones and genocides. Is this any different from the rich hunting the poor for sport? Instead of a trigger, they click a button, but it's not that different.

Isn't humanity awesome? Can we please start jailing these (or at this point, all) psychopaths?

Seriously, 99% of the population consists of awesome people that take care of one another. The problem is that psychopaths, like the ones from the article, have the need to be on top and control everything and we let them.

Seriously, as far as I can tell, humanity could kill a few 10.000s psychopaths and all of the sudden, no more wars, no more hunger, no more conflicts, no more senseless pollution, the world could heal and humanity could enter a phase of sustainable awesomeness.

No. I am not suggesting we kill them, it was just to make the point. However, I do feel we need to start testing people for psychopathy (as far as possible and work in better screening) to ensure we keep these fuckers from positions of power and money. We need to stop psychopaths from gaining any real power.

Hell, if it were up to me, nobody would get great power or money. I'd have a world wide wealth cap, nobody can be worth over, say 1 or 10 million. Anything over that goes to taxes. THAT will stop people.frok amassing great wealth and power and just stop this shit

For the website: I wish people were still masquerading as Anonymous and would just continuously hack this site into the ground where it belongs, next to its disgusting creators.

Fuck I hate this world :(

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    More like 10 million psychopaths. 4% psychopathy rate.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (6 children)

    I didn't believe you. can you present evidence?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (5 children)

    I can try to find. The 4% is the population rate of being without empathy. So that would cover sociopathy, psychopathy, and narcissistic personality disorder. It's still damaging and terrifying.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (4 children)

    how does the dsm define psychopathy

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (2 children)

    I think it's just "antisocial" traits. I also think it might have been updated to exclude sociopathy, but I read books about this a long time ago, so not sure. Psychopaths are Machiavellian, have no empathy, and are narcissistic, iirc. It's called the dark triad. Narcissists still experience anxiety, so they are different that way. Borderline folks often feel bad about themselves rather than having a grandiose sense of self, and I think they only have periods of lack of empathy during episodes. Really, I'm not sure borderline folks count in the 4%. I'm also not sure sociopaths and psychopaths are still classified separately in DSM.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    i have to admit i was baiting you because i knew psychopathy isn't a diagnosable condition in (ok, now just as far as i know) any version of the DSM. but then i read the wikipedia entry on psychopathy.

    it turns out, even though it's not diagnosable as such, there are evaluation criteria for it so it sort of sits in this weird middleground.

    anyway, i think we should just treat people as people and not like a diagnosis. i don't want people to treat me like "depressed commie" or "anxious commie" (not conditions i have diagnosed, just using examples). i want to be treated as a whole person. writing off people who hit certain evaluation criteria as "just a psychopath" is pretty shitty.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago*

    I think they usually do not attempt diagnosis before people are around 21. Maybe has to do with prefrontal lobe development. The reason is that kids are just stupid and do things that might be considered antisocial but are just growing up. Since there is a great stigma attached to those personality disorders, even in the mental health industry, they typically don't want to risk the mistake of incorrectly diagnosing it.

    Some psychopaths are highly functional and seem to be useful at times. I'd rather have a psychopath trauma surgeon for example. But I do think they will make the planet uninhabitable with all the wars and data centers. I've toyed with the idea of eliminating the genetic component through DNA tech, but then it opens Pandora's box for eliminating depression and all other sorts of things that can be natural adaptations or responses to environments, so the next thing you know we would just have perfect people without the imperfections that make us human.

    It's a fascinating topic. After being the target of a malignant psychopath I read some books (after I moved away). I found myself wondering which one of us was really flawed. Is it us for having empathy and vulnerability, or them for the damage they do? After deciding that they are creating barricades for climate change efforts (oil companies repressing clean energy tech, Trump killing wind farm efforts, bombing things constantly), I have come to the conclusion that they will contribute so much to the destruction of our species that it must be them that is flawed. We'll say rather, the condition is flawed since you're right about recognizing individuals as people and not their mental diagnoses.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Seriously, 99% of the population consists of awesome people that take care of one another.

    hmmmm

    Susan Sontag was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10% is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80% could be  moved in either direction” —Kurt Vonnegut

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