Thousands of children die every day from hunger while we sit in front of our computers playing video games, chatting and throwing away food.
But hey, everybody does it.
Thousands are trying to sell you health supplements or medication that they don't believe they are good or have no idea how they work long term. They do it for the money. Most of the time it might be even harmful to your health but they still do it since the law is rather gray.
But hey, everybody does it.
We all wait for the elections so we can vote for the things we want to see in society but entirely neglect how at the same time we are sponsoring the biggest suffering machine in the world. The state army.
But hey, everybody does it.
Psychopathy is a word that is being thrown a lot and for different situations. Wikipedia defines it as a personality disorder characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, egotistical traits.
Under all the examples I mentioned all of us are psychopaths at least to some degree. Notice though how the term specifies "disorder". Dis+order is like the word implies something that is not flowing with the current order or trend. In other words, if most people are doing X and a few do Y then the ones doing Y are the disorderly. This is how all disorders are defined in psychology.
This is also how everything can be a disorder and how basically everyone is in the gray zone for just about everything — whether that is psychopathy, ADHD, depression, OCD, autism or anything else in between. If you believe you have a disorder you read about and some person with a scientific authority( order) confirms that you do, then you accept that you suffer from it.
In our world the psychopath might be the "evil" businessman who only pursuits his own happiness forgetting that his employers exist. We call him a psychopath because we agreed that he doesn't care for us enough. I wonder though, how do 5 billion people see the privileged westerners that earn 10000 times more income and couldn't care less about the suffering of most of the people on the planet? In other words, our terminology about psychopathy has to do with geographical proximity and status rather than a medical evaluation. Exactly like the"evil" businessman one.
Person A can kill people so he can benefit emotionally and financially, feeling no remorse in the process. He doesn't care about the life of that person, his family, his problems and what impact his action have. Person B walks into a shop and buys a really cheap t-shirt that was made in some underground hole in India under child labour. Many got ill making those shirts and many more have died. Ofcourse Person B does not process the steps that t-shirt took in order to reach the store, he doesn't care. All he cares is for him to have a good deal on the item. And he will be proud about it.
What people call psychopathy is nothing but our perception about our current social circle of interest. Someone that puts cheap gas in their car, not caring about the Nigerians under slave labour pumping it, would change their mind if they are to go to Nigeria and see how the process goes. If that person would come back to the western world in a few years time, most people would resume putting cheap has in their car, forgetting all about the Nigerians. In other words, our psychopathy is defined by what benefits us directly. The term monkeysphere, applies here perfectly.
Killing for satisfaction qualifies as psychopathy as much as killing for one's country or defending one's child. In all the instances we are trying to defend some kind of pre-existing perception, an emotional connection we have with something. We kill for our country and feel good about it because our physiology along our social indoctrination offers that kind of reward. Some of us even kill for the sake of killing since certain physiological and cultural processes allowed that kind of satisfaction. Calling a soldier a hero because he kills defending imaginary borders and calling a killer psychopath because he did it without the permission of the state is just another way to spell hypocrisy.
On my book, if something is applies everywhere then it is poorly explained. If everyone in other words, in some subjective degree qualifies as a psychopath then we have no idea what we are talking about. Psychopathy today is just another way to say to someone "you are mean, i am better than you are". It is pedantic and pointless.
