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#647 James Fallon: Psychopathy, Personality Disorders, Brain Scans, and the Nature-Nurture Debate

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Sociopaths Are Not Evil, They're Not the Sinners

In most of western and eastern religions, in order for something to be a sin, you have to know it's a sin. And so in that sense, sociopats are the sinners, because they know what doing is wrong, and they do it anyway. Whereas a psychopath really doesn't have a sense of morality or moral reasoning. So there's all these funny, a contradictions, if you will, curiosity about it. But if you zone down there's ten personality disorders. Three are called cluster b one of them is acopathy, or anti social personality disorder. Some are cyclopass but the terrorists are getting even with the world for an offence. An in it is very different.

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