> It may be true that psychopathic traits enable certain individuals to game the system, as it were, and succeed wildly in modern society. That's precisely why natural selection will encourage it, isn't it? >probably for the worse. I'm not sure I agree with that, a society where everybody can read each other accurately and perceptively..that may be a tougher society to live in, but it'll have its share of benefits (like perfect understanding), so it's not necessarily worse.