> After years of study, intensive therapy and earning a Ph.D. in psychology, I can say that sociopaths aren’t “bad” or “evil” or “crazy.” We simply have ...
Holy moral vacuum, Batman. That is not true, at all. First, psychology doesn't do ethics. It tries (not very well, I may add) to find causes for behavior, emotions, feelings, and social and cognitive processes. But it doesn't justify nor condemn those. Second, stabbing someone with a pencil is bad. The person who does that is bad. Sure, they can redeem themselves, but then they still were bad when they did so.
The "we simply have..." part of the sentence is like saying "people with a low iq aren't dumb, they only have a harder time understanding complex issues". It's self-absolving bollocks.
I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok = all lumberjacks are ok.
The fact they're attempting to speak on behalf of all is really starting on the wrong foot. Painting with a brush with the broadness of stereotypes.
Don't call me evil, I'm just misunderstood.
Without empathy I'd call into question their ability to judge bad, evil, or crazy for the rest of society that do feel empathy. It's like someone who is red/green colourblind defining what red is for the non-colourblind.
And 'crazy' is just 'we don't have a name for that particular thing yet': I'm not crazy, we call it antisocial personality disorder now, there's questions and a scale and everything. Not crazy.
What I get from that comment is sociopaths are not motivated by evil behaviors. And so the comment aims to differentiate sociopaths from those who are out to kill and destroy.
I'm not really sure what you're trying to say. First, behavior is not motivation. Second, if someone is evil is a moral judgement of behavior and intentions, not a clinical diagnosis. Third, there may be different "levels" of sociopathology, a spectrum if you will, but that doesn't excuse all of them.
Holy moral vacuum, Batman. That is not true, at all. First, psychology doesn't do ethics. It tries (not very well, I may add) to find causes for behavior, emotions, feelings, and social and cognitive processes. But it doesn't justify nor condemn those. Second, stabbing someone with a pencil is bad. The person who does that is bad. Sure, they can redeem themselves, but then they still were bad when they did so.
The "we simply have..." part of the sentence is like saying "people with a low iq aren't dumb, they only have a harder time understanding complex issues". It's self-absolving bollocks.