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Is psychopathy merely extreme competitiveness?

>> No.4800293

No, Freud.

>> No.4800294

Has OP ever consulted a medical textbook about this?

Now that's a question I can answer. NO.

>> No.4800295

>>4800290


its a deficiency, psychopaths can hardly help themselves, let alone anyone else.

>> No.4800296

>>4800290
No. They cannot see past their delusions of grandeur and admit a loss in a given competition. A true competitor would admit defeat.

>> No.4800320

>>4800290
Well there's actually a theory that psychopaths might be affected by an overactive reward center, which would give them a bigger rush for getting away with more and more heinous shit

>> No.4800386

>>4800296
An extreme competitor would break the rules to win

>> No.4800586

>>4800386
No. Breaking the rules would decrease the longevity of their career, and reduce the amount of time they could compete. If they need to break the rules to win, they risk promoting others to break the rules and remove her only chance to win. Never mind that the officials could ban them from competition.

Why do you think just because somebody is a competitor they have to win at all costs?" A competitor competes.

>> No.4800593

>>4800294
from what i understand their brain functions are pronouncedly different from the norm.

>> No.4800597

>>4800290
Nope. It encompasses more than competetivness, like lack of empathy (for all human beings, not just their adversary), superficial charm and charisma, manipulative abilities, often a parasitic lifestyle, pathological lying, etc etc.

>> No.4800606

>>4800320
The reward system is different from the avoiding punishment system. Is one of the main differences between humans demonstrated "scientifically", besides the standard level of cortical activation on extroversion and introversion

>> No.4800615

excuse me for coming off as ignorant but
is sadness stupid? obviously some people are unable to achieve happiness because they have chemical imbalances in their brain or they live in poor conditions etc. but is sadness unintelligent?

>> No.4800621

I think it's more being comfortable with the whole mental scene where your ordinary person is very wrapped up in the physicality of others.

>> No.4800625

>>4800621
I can pretty much prove this, too, but I'm psychopathy is pretty much the main thing I explore in my writings and I'd hate to spoil that for myself >:D

>> No.4800630

>>4800625
>psychopathy is pretty much the main thing I explore in my writings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwQ729mDNb8

>> No.4800631

>>4800615
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_intelligence
Take a guess

>> No.4800637

>>4800630
Haha, I'm onto something fresh, I promise :D

>> No.4800639

>>4800637
extreme

>> No.4800640

>>4800637
Though Hannibal Lecter does kinda touch on it, and that perspective does somewhat align with OP. I'm more going for something really deconstructionist, though.

>> No.4800645

Hannibal Lecter doesn't lose in being incarcerated, by the way. That's a large part of what I'm getting at. He's more sure of the norm than the average person, his incarceration merely an inconvenience. Love, then, can be sensibly considered but wishful thinking, a want for stronger connection, greater safety, utterly selfish all said.

I don't like that idea, though :D

>> No.4800650

>>4800290
Why does offtopic shitposting appeal to tripfags? Oh, right...

>> No.4800653

Feminister, that tune owns so hard lol

>> No.4800655

>>4800653
>capitalist tunes

>> No.4800657

>>4800655
What do you mean? You don't like it?

>> No.4800659

Edgy green-texting is lame :P

>> No.4800660

>>4800657
It makes my toes swing and my freckles sing

>> No.4800663

>>4800660
I love you

>> No.4800666

>>4800660

Electroswing is in the same category as turbofolk. Musical chimeras.

>> No.4800669
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4800669

>>4800663

>> No.4800670

psychopathy is just being an edgy faggot and using a fancy word that make girls go "ooh das hot n crazy lol"

>> No.4800673

>>4800669
I want nothing from you, I swear! If you want someone to join you in drinking away this miserable, carnal existence, I'm here, though.

>> No.4800679

Anyone else think surrealism is the fucking worst thing in the world?

>> No.4800685

>>4800679
It makes girls cry :(

>> No.4800687

>>4800679
surrealism is too patrician for girls

>> No.4800694

>>4800687
Pretty much. Easy to revel in your own bullshit justification, but it's not going to be such a treat for those lower down on the food chain than you.

>> No.4800697

>>4800666
Trips confirm fedoracore. In the sense that wearing fedoras and t shirts is a fashion chimera.

>> No.4800699

how do you guys make sure you're aware of delusion? is some delusion unavoidable?

>> No.4800703

No-one knows what psychopathy is or if it even exists because no physical mechanism has ever been found.

>> No.4800708

>>4800699
Feelings are but rationality given life. It's simply a matter of realising this and reigning them in lest they become ravenous monsters. No, I don't think some delusion is unavoidable.

>> No.4800715

>>4800703
I know, but I am really smart. And Derren Brown also knows, but he's a dickhead.

>> No.4800717

>>4800708
People put too much stake in the words that are coming out of their mouths, basically.

>> No.4800730

>>4800290
it's a generalization for people who have serious emotional problems

>> No.4800785

>>4800597
I would think so too, but all those can be tools in the tool box of winning at all costs

>> No.4800800

>>4800685
I write the songs that make the young girls cry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-fev20voMc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9KnuJZkBjg#t=139

Washing our ears out from what Fem poisoned us with.