Massad Ayoob once wrote criminals are afraid of 3 things: guns, dogs, and the ability to call more of the same.JustSomeOldGuy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:07 am I've known a number of sociopaths in my life; none of them had 'social equity' as a life goal.
Psychopaths won't even feel bad about the harm they have caused. They are incapable. The psychotic may not even realize the harm they have caused.
As a society we do have to deal with that, but we CANNOT give more power to sociopaths and psychopaths by disarming ourselves.
Agree or disagree with him, Dr. Kevin Barrett's spirited take on the issue is worth consideration: Twilight of the Psychopaths
Truly, we are witnessing the twilight of the psychopaths. Whether in their death throes they succeed in pulling down the curtain of eternal night on all of us, or whether we resist them and survive to see the dawn of a civilization worthy of the name, is the great decision in which all of us others, however humbly, are now participating.
