Psychopaths are alien enough for me to have at best minor compunctions about wholesale annihilation
You have at best minor compunctions about wholesale annihilation of an entire group of humans because you are too different to a psychopath? There’s some irony!
Note that this site has something of an official policy against discussion of hypothetical violence against identifiable people or groups. As far as I know there is no “except, you know, psychopaths, those @#%#s have it coming” exception in place. Incidentally of all the groups of actual humans one could discuss the wholesale annihilation of, psychopaths are among the least safe target to threaten in practical terms. Psychopaths will tend to have fewer compunctions when it comes to casual execution of pre-emptive self defence measures.
If I can play iterated prisoners dilemma with it and our terminal values are not at odds let’s trade. I have recent second hand exposure to one psychopath fucking a friend of mine over. It has left me with a much more visceral comprehension of the fact that some people are fucking evil than I had previously. And of conformity and victim blaming.
I’m going to retract the comment as ableist and because as you pointed out genocide is wrong.
A possibly rude question follows. Do you or have you had friendly relations with anyone you recognised was a psychopath? If so how, why?
A possibly rude question follows. Do you or have you had friendly relations with anyone you recognised was a psychopath? If so how, why?
A high functioning psychopath, sure. I blame people for what they in fact do, not which parts of their brain are active when they do so. My own visceral comprehension of human evil is such that I don’t see much tangible practical difference between high functioning instrumentally rational psychopaths and normal particularly high status humans. In fact since the main difference can be that the psychopath has had to become self aware of their own hypocrisy.
You have at best minor compunctions about wholesale annihilation of an entire group of humans because you are too different to a psychopath? There’s some irony!
Note that this site has something of an official policy against discussion of hypothetical violence against identifiable people or groups. As far as I know there is no “except, you know, psychopaths, those @#%#s have it coming” exception in place. Incidentally of all the groups of actual humans one could discuss the wholesale annihilation of, psychopaths are among the least safe target to threaten in practical terms. Psychopaths will tend to have fewer compunctions when it comes to casual execution of pre-emptive self defence measures.
If I can play iterated prisoners dilemma with it and our terminal values are not at odds let’s trade. I have recent second hand exposure to one psychopath fucking a friend of mine over. It has left me with a much more visceral comprehension of the fact that some people are fucking evil than I had previously. And of conformity and victim blaming.
I’m going to retract the comment as ableist and because as you pointed out genocide is wrong.
A possibly rude question follows. Do you or have you had friendly relations with anyone you recognised was a psychopath? If so how, why?
A high functioning psychopath, sure. I blame people for what they in fact do, not which parts of their brain are active when they do so. My own visceral comprehension of human evil is such that I don’t see much tangible practical difference between high functioning instrumentally rational psychopaths and normal particularly high status humans. In fact since the main difference can be that the psychopath has had to become self aware of their own hypocrisy.