I can grant that some pathological liars didn’t pick it up culturally, and kind of just have fucked up genetics. But I still prefer to view them as a person who would ultimately actually prefer truth but took a wrong turn at some point, than as someone who is just fundamentally in their core a pathological liar. I think, with the technologies available today, me viewing them as a mistake theorist does not lead to substantially different actions from me viewing them as a conflict theorist, except perhaps that I might be more attuned to the suffering they’re going through for having such a deeply entrenched false belief about the best way to live their life.
This is sus.
In an effort to assert that everyone is basically good, we’ve found ourselves asserting that people who are very psychologically different than us, who were born that way, are fundamentally mistaken, at a genetic level?
I at least want to be open to the possibility of the sociopath who straightforwardly likes being a sociopath—it works for them, they sincerely don’t want to be different, they think it would be worse to be neurotypical. Maybe, by their own, coherent lights, they’re just right about that.
(In much the same way that many asexuals look at the insanity of sexual desire and think “why would I want to be like that?!”, while the normally-sexed people would absolutely not choose delete their sex-drive.)
This is sus.
In an effort to assert that everyone is basically good, we’ve found ourselves asserting that people who are very psychologically different than us, who were born that way, are fundamentally mistaken, at a genetic level?
I at least want to be open to the possibility of the sociopath who straightforwardly likes being a sociopath—it works for them, they sincerely don’t want to be different, they think it would be worse to be neurotypical. Maybe, by their own, coherent lights, they’re just right about that.
(In much the same way that many asexuals look at the insanity of sexual desire and think “why would I want to be like that?!”, while the normally-sexed people would absolutely not choose delete their sex-drive.)