Comments by "Charles M." (@charlesm.2604) on "EXPLORE WITH US" channel.

Land of the unfree
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What's funny is everyone in the entourage of the 2 others had something bad to say, except Russel's entourage. He was homeless and going to interviews to get a job, any resource he had he was trying to pass it forward to those in even worse situations, playing with kids, treating the only person that cared about him as a mother, etc... And even after all this shit he still tried to help what he thought was "an abused child" in the interrogation room. He strikes me as someone with the best intentions and a lot of dedication but life fucked him over and he found himself thrown in a cesspool of bad actors who didn't have his best interest in mind and who took advantage of his mental illness. Great reminder to help those with illness, get them to therapy and provide them with the love and attention they require otherwise we end up in these kinds of situations.
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@TheInfiniteMag And what makes it even harder is that it's super difficult to diagnose psychopathy or sociopathy. Just having low empathy could come from so many different disorders or just personality types in general so it's often time brushed off at early age but people fail to realize that 15 is the tipping point when you can still salvage the situation in antisocial personality disorders so you're pretty much letting a future serial killer off the hook basically.
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@gavinwesterlind7643 Exactly, we don't even know if he has ASPD or anything else. Things as silly and insignificant as one's diet or sleep routine can cause them to lose empathy (temporary mood disorders such as depression or episodic ones such as bipolar disorder for instances). That makes it hard for professionals to have conclusive diagnosis without years of therapy so that's probably why it felt it was a waste of time. Nobody should be excusing the murderer. All I'm saying is as parents it is our duties to ensure we do everything possible to avoid raising killers when we still can.
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@IcECreAm-sv2qv Properly teaching a kid in his formative years how to adapt is beneficial not only for his own future but also to society as a whole. Sociopaths can still have cognitive empathy (the ability to understand people's thoughts and feelings as opposed to emotionally FEELING their emotions). They just need to be taught differently, more implicitly. Emotional empathy does not really matter in the grand scheme of things; it just makes it harder to form strong resilient genuine healthy relationship (and even then most of the time people with good cognitive empathy are more reliable and give great advice so I wouldn't even make that claim). In the real world just because you have the ability to take advantage of someone and not be emotionally charged by it does not mean that you will. It just mean you could.
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@louisacapell Alright fair enough if the mom was like this too. Hope Leah has moved past it too man, have a good one !
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@mikeydude750 Except you can. Tens of millions of sociopaths (if not hundreds) aren't killers. They are either regular average Joes or successful leaders and social builders. If that's how you would handle it with your kid then your shitty parenting and lack of care has caused the death of innocent people instead, you're not any better than he is as a person and you should be ashamed of yourself for failing as a parent.
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Do you think some of the bullshit might have been true/rooted in truth indirectly or was her personal life all good ?
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