This is intellectual-dishonesty.

Is it valid to insist that ear-deafness is an actual human condition?

Yes, right?

Is it valid to insist that eye-blindness is an actual human condition?

Yes, right?

Is it valid to insist that arithmetic-disability is an actual human condition?

Yes, right?

Is it valid to insist that dyslexia is an actual human condition?

Yes, right?

Is it valid to insist that dysgraphia, writing-disability is an actual human condition?

Yes, right?

Is it valid to insist that colorblindness is an actual human condition?

Yes, right?

Is it valid to insist that autism's social-process-deafness is an actual human condition?

Yes, right?

Is it valid to insist that broken mirror-neuron-system, totally-missing empathy, is MEASURABLE in very young children?

Yes, it actually is.

THAT is psychopathy.

Quit gaslighting us.

Brain-diversity DOES include no-empathy as an actual condition.

Go read "Snakes in Suits", if you want some non-academic stuff, & pay attention to the guy who diced-up someone when he was let-out for a day,

& couldn't understand why that would be a problem, because it had been years since he'd done it last-time .. & understand that diversity-of-brain-wiring goes THAT fucking deep.

Quit gaslighting us.

That psychologist who studied the Nazi accused in Nuremburg identified non-empathy as THE key trait characterizing them,

& that's exactly what true-psychopathy is: inability to ever understand it, because it's a MISSING sense, in that sentience.

( I'm calling sociopathy psychologically-induced incapacity-of-empathy, and psychopathy intrinsic-wiring incapacity-of-empathy, btw, which may differ from the psychologists' definitions )

I'm NOT claiming that the pop-psychology tests, or even the psychologist-tests, are valid or nonvalid,

but I AM claiming that psychopathy's an actual-condition, & that there are brain-scan differences between them & us, & that if you look at who the serial-killers ( not serial-murderers, where the murders are the point, .. but the people who just can't value any life, so they kill again & again & again, lives who were "in their way" ), you will find that statistically-significantly-too-many of them are psychopaths, for it to be "mere coincidence".

Correct-framing vs disinformation: the greater the grip/control of disinformation, the less-viable WE are, the less-viable humankind is, this century.

ESPECIALLY this-century: it's final, this time.

Don't tolerate disinformation to pretend authority/validity on issues like people getting butchered for kicks, or because they were "in the way".

& pretending that people like Putin are just "repressed" or something, instead of actually-incapable-of-human-empathy, when the evidence sooo completely contradicts that, is insane.

This is an issue which has fundamental consequences for actual lives: many of them, as some country-leaders are psychopaths, right now.

I'd at this point want to see any proof that Netanyahu isn't one, rather than seeing proof that he is one, given the 0.1 MILLION murders he's had his "Israel" enforce ( & Hamas's genocide-attack that "justified" Netanyahu's genociding of Palestine isn't either clean or innocent, either: ALL countries have unclean histories, this is only a punching-the-world-in-the-face example currently, is all )

Gaslighters gonna gaslight, obviously.

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The article is pretty thin on evidence. Meanwhile as u/Paragone@lemmy.world pointed out, there is overwhelming evidence that psycopathy really does exist. Makes me question the author's true intent, as they're quite obviously a bad-faith actor.

Lol ok, so the pos are just what? evil?

Title:

There are no psychopaths, but the idea persists.

Article:

Psychopathy may not exist at all.

The DSM doesn't include that specific diagnosis any more right, it's all the ASPD and DPD spectrum now ?

They removed it because of the absolute shitshow that was trying to reliably diagnose psychopathy as it was originally described.(and possibly the negative connotations associated with the word itself)

So now they have a series of metrics to measure things they can somewhat reliably measure over time.

Like how the medical diagnosis of idiot doesn't exist anymore, but there are more accurate and nuanced terms and diagnosis for intellectual disabilities in various forms.

I could be wrong however, my understanding of this area of research is middling at best.

We just think there are because so many people act like psychopaths

I thought we had long decided that a psychopath was a sociopath with extra steps.

As with most things like this it's probably a spectrum rather than something you either are or are not. It's easy to tell when someone is in the far end of that spectrum but the line where it officially crosses into psychopathy is always going to be arbitrary.

It is a laymans term for someone without a conscience whose actions usually result in hurting people.

It describes a wild range of behavior from something like your ex acting like a "psychopath" to a murderer. For this reason it isn't useful in a legal or medical sense.

There are no psychopaths, only Zuul

That was ... mildly interesting.