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Letter From A Psychopath

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Interesting. I would like to meet this person. I find it very helpful to surround myself with people that have a different way of seeing the world.

I would like to meet this person.

No, no no no no. No you would not. Not unless you mean it like "I'd like to meet a serial killer, just for the experience." Maybe it'd be interesting to get their point of view, sure, but you are far better off without them in your life. And certainly without having any form of relationship with them.

One of the main reasons this guy wrote this letter was probably self-aggrandization. The very fact that you find him more interesting is exactly what he wanted. That's not inherently a bad thing.

What's inherently a bad thing is that when human remorse and guilt have been genetically disabled, those people will do things to you which are fucked up. I have experienced the blunt, raw force of their emotional carpet bombing firsthand from a certain family member.

Everyone needs to remember that these people are hardwired to be deliberately manipulative, because they feel good only when you're giving them attention. Then they feel good only when you're doing things they've conned you into believing you want to do; sometimes things you'll feel shitty about for the rest of your life, once you snap out of it and realize you've been a puppet.

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They fucken extort me every couple weeks. I used to care but now I just worry about God. in 1985 I tried to get a dog to lick my dick. I masterbaited once fantasizing about my niece. The only policy for extortion is shoot the hostages and laugh at them being punished by God.

BBC calls me nigger, now I call people nigger.

CIA tortured me with Job. Never gonna hava an employeer or employee.

Fucken made me impotant, never gonna have a lover.

I just care about God. I am invincable and they're fucked.

God says... hard_working don't_worry Bam let's_see news_to_me smart vermin nevada sky atheist Ramsay wazz_up_with_that gross WooHoo Burp recipe you're_out_of_your_mind God do_not_disturb vengeful on_the_otherhand conservative spunky astronomical poor pardon_the_french experts small_talk Bam good off_the_record where's_the_love prosperity I_see_nothing take_the_day_off phasors_on_stun nasty birds joke I_am_not_amused horrendous

I'm fuckin invincible -- a psychopath. A psy-ops worst nightmare.

Re: Letter From A Psychopath

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>It is also the case that, being 'normal' takes a degree of energy and conscious thought that is instinctive for most, but to me is a significant expenditure of energy. I think it analogous to speaking a second language.

Sounds about right. I thought it was pretty 'normal' to feel this way sometimes...

Re: Letter From A Psychopath

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If you're interested in what life for such a person is like (or if you might be one!), check out M. E. Thomas's Confessions of a Sociopath. I wrote about it here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/summary-judgment-co... and Tyler Cowen wrote about it here: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/06/con... and elsewhere.

FWIW, from what I've read (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/10/081110fa_fact_...) there were (at least) no therapies or treatments that reproducibly help psychopaths:

The psychiatric profession wanted little to do with psychopathy, for several reasons. For one thing, it was thought to be incurable. Not only did the talking cure fail with psychopaths but several studies suggested that talk therapy made the condition worse, by enabling psychopaths to practice the art of manipulation. There were no valid instruments to measure the personality traits that were commonly associated with the condition; researchers could study only the psychopaths’ behavior, in most cases through their criminal records.

And now there are, at least in the sense of reducing criminal behavior:

In a landmark 2006 study of a specialized talk-therapy treatment program, conducted at a juvenile detention center in Wisconsin, involving a hundred and forty-one young offenders who scored high on the youth version of the checklist, Michael Caldwell, a psychologist at the treatment center and a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, reported that the youths that were treated were much more likely to stay out of trouble, once they were paroled, than the ones in the control group.

But note that the linked article is from 2008. Perhaps things have changed since.

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Can someone paste it on gist? Work proxy is blocking the site =/

Honestly? This is a question on hacker news? There are millions of ways to access a site via another site. W3C validator comes to mind. Or textmirror.net. Or browsershots.org. Or the Google cache. Or or or...

To be honest, putting it on pastebin took me less time than writing a cynical response would have taken me.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly? This is a question on hacker news? There are millions of ways to access a site via another site. W3C validator comes to mind. Or textmirror.net. Or browsershots.org. Or the Google cache. Or or or...

How is asking someone to paste it any less of a solution than any of those?

They would be able to view it instantly instead of waiting for people to bother posting it on Pastebin

Re: Letter From A Psychopath

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This is a very good article. Thanks for this.

This explains - What makes a difference, if someone diverts their energy doing something Positive. As they say - It's not who you are, but what you do that defines you.

>Serial Killers & Ruthless CEOs exist - Voldemort does not.

Excellent ending to a great article.

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