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#476 - Mark Freestone - Why Do Psychopaths Exist?

Modern Wisdom

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Psychopathy Is Adaptable

Psychopaths don't experience shame and trorme in response to doing bad things becaue. They see, i'm going to go and protect my family. In order to do that, i have to provide them with food or clothes. And this is what we call instrumental reasoning. So all that the focus is on the end, yet the means are totally irrelevant. I need to get there. If people die or get messed up on the way,. well that's unfortunate, because you say it's unfortunate. But i don't really buy into that. It's away somh about post dramatic stress disorder. Some offenders in prison have done such terrible things that they've traumatized

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