mtraven: many of the posters in this thread—myself included—have said that they don’t believe in morality (meaning morality and not “values” or “motivation”), and yet I very highly doubt that many of us are clinically psychopaths.
Not believing in morality does not mean doing what those who believe in morality consider to be immoral. Psychopathy is not “not believing in morality”: it entails certain kinds of behaviors, which naive analyses of attribute to “lack of morality”, but which I would argue are a result of aberrant preferences that manifest as aberrant behavior and can be explained without recourse to the concept of morality.
mtraven: many of the posters in this thread—myself included—have said that they don’t believe in morality (meaning morality and not “values” or “motivation”), and yet I very highly doubt that many of us are clinically psychopaths.
Not believing in morality does not mean doing what those who believe in morality consider to be immoral. Psychopathy is not “not believing in morality”: it entails certain kinds of behaviors, which naive analyses of attribute to “lack of morality”, but which I would argue are a result of aberrant preferences that manifest as aberrant behavior and can be explained without recourse to the concept of morality.