"He got on his knees and begged, ‘No, Daddy, no,’ and he pulled the trigger,"

[Riceaholic]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

And my belief is that people are narrowing the definition of sociopath, so that they don't fall into it themselves. There is a tendency in the mental health care profession to sub-compartmentalize various larger illness groups, and create definitions for illnesses out of whole cloth, so that they can create their own "syndrome" discovery.

How many people you know, from their mid-teen years on, exhibit the following pathology?

- not learning from experience
- no sense of responsibility
- inability to form meaningful relationships
- inability to control impulses
- lack of moral sense
- chronically antisocial behavior
- no change in behavior after punishment
- emotional immaturity
- lack of guilt
- self-centeredness

The more that I think about it, the more I come to believe that we're currently raising a generation of sociopaths.

I agree but the problem is nobody's "raising" them. If you're surrounded by bad behavior, that's all you're gonna know.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Riceaholic

I agree but the problem is nobody's "raising" them. If you're surrounded by bad behavior, that's all you're gonna know.

Raising them in a vacuum is also a parenting choice.