Thom Baguley wrote:
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> > From: Benedict Adamson <badamson_at_...>
> >Psychopaths are extreme emotional extroverts who do not feel that
> >society's rules (or indeed, any kind of rules) need apply to them.
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> Without getting technical, I don't think psychopaths can be described as
> "extreme emotional extroverts".The usual definition is of someone with no
> social conscience or moral empathy.
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> The short-hand "psycho" seems to come from the term psychotic - someone out
> of touch with reality.
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> Humakti could be psychopaths - following their code not out of a moral or
> social sense, but purely out of duty.
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So, someone with a personal moral code can still be a psychopath.
As Thom is an academic psychologist, I stand corrected!
I don't understand you distinction between 'social sense' and 'duty'.
Isn't 'duty' a socially imposed norm? And isn't 'morality' too?
Is a Humakti's 'honour' related to having a social conscience?
Would it be true to say that members of ANY cult could be
psychopaths?