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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wow, you're so clever you couldn't even go to wiki for one second. Sociopathy is, in fact, real and refers to Antisocial Personality Disorder.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ohhhhhhh. Okay, I understand now. You were using a controversial slur to refer to a disorder whose actual name you full well know. Sorry, I was giving you the benefit of the doubt and starting from the assumption you didn't hate disabled people. I understand now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You were using a controversial slur to refer to a disorder whose actual name you full well know.

Don't worry, much like sociopathy the current term will eventually also become a slur and need to be renamed again. This is the way of such things - so long as the thing is seen as something negative, the term for being/having that thing will take on a negative connotation over time. Several rounds of this is why the language has become so wordy and bloodless - if it's enough of a pain to repeat in full every time it takes longer for it to become a slur.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Maybe words for disorders wouldn't turn into slurs if people like you didn't insist on stigmatising disorders by diagnosing evil public figures with them.