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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
Intelligent sociopaths are everywhere. They are all around us. They are running companies, practicing law, ruling Wall Street etc. The US now leads the way in the growth of sociopathy. 1 in 25 people and getting worse. A shitty thing to mix with a culture that's all "me, me, me, me"
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It's very subjective to call those type of people 'sociopaths', unethical, extremely selfish - in short, maybe they're just garden variety assholes.
People call Hitler a sociopath, I'm not sure of that, we seem to have a need to ascribe a mental disorder to everybody who does evil things. Then again as you've posted before the work of Gazzaniga, how much free will we have is now up for scientific debate and as we learn more about the brain maybe we'll find out we have much less than we think we do and Hitler was just an oddity, the wrong idiot in the right place and right time to fulfill his destiny.