Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "The Infographics Show"
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All these things are going to be largely environmental, though, aren't they?? According to epigenetics, genes can get turned on and off due to external factors at an early age, as well as in the womb.
A child that "senses" it will be born in a hostile environment such as a ghetto or a war zone will tend to have all those aggressive and less empathic genes turned on.. For survival's sake. Also the brain is very plastic till you're about 2 or 3 years old.
Mind you. As to whether we've ever "met a psychopath". I really don't know how to define one that isn't a criminal. If "millions" - 1℅ are that - surely many are at a very petty level!!
But - "have I met a psychopath"? No I don't think so - but I have met many people who are varying degrees of selfish, cruel, impatient, conceited, anti-social, bullying, prejudiced, xenophobic etc, from my schooldays onwards. Plus teachers - and others with authority in a specific field such as nurses - who have been on power trips. Women don't generally get a lot of power, so when on petty power trips they can be very unpleasant. And so on.
So are they all sociopaths, or what ??
Actually, my best candidate for sociopath right now is a near neighbour of mine. She is selfish, lying (says she or her sons have done stuff for you that they haven't), a malicious gossip, conceited, only cares about herself and her family and that's it - has an excessive sense of her own importance and righteousness, and makes unreasonable demands - or then bursts all over you because you haven't fulfilled the unreasonable demands she hasn't even had the guts to make to your face before!! My nasty neighbour, who never impressed me with her goodness before, REALLY showed herself in her true colours a couple of months ago by her irrational and venomous outburst of this kind.
So is that a psychopath? Or just a poisonous stupid old woman?
Another occasion which gave me misgivings last year was when quite a well known British female author (who is known for writing more "touchy feely" books than the reverse!) blocked me from her Twitter over something REALLY trivial. A hashtag.
And she called me (and persists in calling me) a troll.
But the real problem with her, I have ascertained, is that she can't take criticism. Particularly not informed criticism. Terrible, for an author, no??!
Because it was actually when I passed her on a link to a negative review on a specialist site on the web, composed by someone who was not me (and was American) but belonged to a similar religious minority to myself, that she really started to turn nasty! It's all right if people from that minority flatter her. *But it's not OK if they - or anyone else, presumably - say anything challengingly critical*, no matter from how informed and expert (and personally affected) a standpoint.
That's bad, don't you think, peeps??
Well I was just wondering whether that denoted psychopathy - or at least some form of malignant narcissism.
Because I have heard that these psychopaths, and narcissists and so on, can't tolerate criticism. Like many past dictators and other nutters.
(It's the: "I don't care if the other person could be said to have more intimate knowledge of Subject X than I do" factor that really rings alarm bells with me!
Of course, in certain respects today that attitude is socially prohibited because of political correctness. Usually when the minority in question is of another skin colour. But when they're not... 😏)
The previously described attitude to me however suggests a person with a weak ego, not a strong one.
Thoughts, people??
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