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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Dictators tend to be psychopaths. I wonder if we can call psychopaths a race.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If after the following steps:

Get 2 Psychopaths to make a baby (let's call this subject A).
Take subject A at birth and nurture it in an environment previously proven to not create psychopaths.
Test subject A after a threshold age.

Get statistical data.

If result:

subject A is psychopath with 99% + confidence, then psychopaths are a race.
subject A is psychopath with < 99% confidence, then psychopaths are NOT a race.

Just to be clear, I will not endorse this study.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It's already been shown that psychopaths can live relatively normal lives when given proper treatment. There's even a story of one such brain researcher (James Fallon) finding out his own brain structures in an MRI result showed a tendency to psychopathy, even though he was a fairly average man who was conducting such a study.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

In that case, wouldn't we want to say, instead, that the researcher's environment was such that he developed mild tendencies towards psychopathy, but not enough to be socially relevant.
I would go so far to say that the average person has a tendency to psychopathy, considering the social state of our civilisation.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Homo Sapiens seems to be a fine term

Homo Neanderthalensis were chill