Comments by "Charles M." (@charlesm.2604) on "Footage Shows Teen Luring 10 Year Old to Her Death" video.

@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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@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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