The insanity defense

Watermark said:
You do know, don't you, that in most cases it isn't a serious disorder, and the vast majority of sociopaths aren't confined to high-security mental institutes where they ramble to the wall?
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Most of them are in politics, the law, the police, universities, schools, business (it's an advantage in the business world), professional sports, medicine - you name it. Only a few make it into the prison, most are too intelligent to get locked up.
 
Diuretic said:
Most of them are in politics, the law, the police, universities, schools, business (it's an advantage in the business world), professional sports, medicine - you name it. Only a few make it into the prison, most are too intelligent to get locked up.
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Man, that sounds like it'd kick ass. I wish I were a sociopath.
 
Well you'll shoot straight to the top then.

No, sorry, belay that last comment. Paradox warning......

Hah, you do have a conscience after all. And there I was going to advise you to cut all the ethics classes, you could just tell the professor you won't need them - but since you do have a conscience, you will need them.

Damnit I think I just added two semesters to your programme.

Sorry about that.
 
Watermark said:
"Kick ole' green teeth in the knee."


My sister is getting a degree in CLINICAL psychology, and history. She's about to have her bachelor's, and then she's going post-graduate.

She told me the quote above, from a psychotic patient.

Psychosis is an inability to understand reality in a human way. Psychopathy and sociopathy is a lack of the emotions that make us human. Sociopaths are much more difficult to sympathize with that any other type of mental illness, because of their reprehensible actions and their utter lack of remorse. A psychotic person may do something reprehensible but they'll be so confused it's hard not to feel sorry for them.
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The Kick ole Green Teeth quote is from a song about a guy with long hair traveling through your neck of the woods.
 
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