Posted by Zo on April 4, 2002, at 20:05:52
In reply to Re: Prey are the best people!, posted by JohnX2 on April 4, 2002, at 18:45:04
1. More and more I tend think sociopathy is most often something a person is born with, or should I say, without. Without human empathy, remorse, the moral capacity. Clearly, a brutal childhood can make for a brutal adult--but look how often it doesn't!
I think it's a brain glitch. (That's the scientific term.)
2. As an inner process only. Why? Because in most cases, the perpetrator? There ain't nobody home. . . and even if there were, he sure as hell wouldn't feel the need to be forgiven!
3. Not in the manner in which one forgives another actual person--in whom, no matter how deluded or out to lunch, still, there is the capacity to *hear* it.
(Maybe you've had to have had a sociopath in your life, to really understand this, it's hard for normal, feeling people to "get.")
4. The evidence seems to be coming down on the hopeless side. What would hope and change consist of, in a person without conscience? Why would they think there's any reason to change? I think they do notice some difference in the rest of us--besides that we are easy prey, we do seem to be having some sort of fun--and that they are excellent imitators of normal. . .unless you look closely, which no one but their chewed-up, spat-out prey has any motivation to do. Which helps predators continue to operate undeterred; who the hell takes seriously the ravings of chewed-up prey.
It *is* sad, their existence. But not equally sad. This inequality of course being the immense moral distinction between predator and prey.
Zo
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