2007-02-05 05:24:31 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Check out this website to explore the characteristics of psychopaths: http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/psychopath.html
There are plenty of psychopaths out there who don't kill. Not all psychopaths are killers - they could be politicians, managers, pretty much anyone who demonstrates the characteristics described in the link.
2007-02-05 06:36:47 · answer #1 · answered by ms_lain_iwakura 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question. Having studied psychology, I think most psychologists would tell you that psychopaths are pre-determined to be selfish and destructive (not necessarily killers, but sometimes) mainly because of brain damage that occurs before birth. Their intelligence may be within the normal range or sometimes even high, but their ability to feel and empathize with others is impaired. However I believe people are a lot more complicated and free will does play a big role. In fact studies show that even in identical twins who should be exactly the same, our predisposition to be the way we are is changed not just by the environment also the choices we make! If you look at the life stories of famous psychopaths, there is a pattern where they start out with minor crimes and only gradually slide towards becoming mass murderers. In other words it's my opinion that some people really do choose to be evil, and they could have chosen otherwise at some point before it went that far.
2007-02-05 10:33:52 · answer #2 · answered by mj_indigo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Psychopaths are generally not very happy and if they do experience happiness it is only short-lived. They do not have the capacity to feel or empathize with other human beings, so they miss out on the fortunes of love, friendship, and companionship. Few are murderers because they like themselves too much to spend the rest of their lives in jail; some on the other hand have totally lost control and ultimately end up seriously injurying others. Happiness is a mood state that most psychopaths have difficulty experiencing because of their reduced capacity to feel.
2007-02-05 05:35:24 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what type of psychosis they have. Some psychopathic people are not driven to murder, they may just entertain the thought of doing it without carrying it out. Some, though, like Ted Bundy, needed to murder in order to be fulfilled. And these are the type individuals that I think should be executed, because they can't be cured and they will never stop trying to kill no matter what therapy they undergo. They are driven to take a life in order to feel complete in theirs. The sickest of the sick.
2007-02-05 05:32:55 · answer #4 · answered by Gayle 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
certainly. not all psychopaths are driven to kill. they simply suffer from a mental disorder characterized by
* 1. Superficial charm and average intelligence.
* 2. Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking.
* 3. Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations.
* 4. Unreliability.
* 5. Untruthfulness and insincerity.
* 6. Lack of remorse or shame.
* 7. Antisocial behavior without apparent compunction.
* 8. Poor judgment and failure to learn from experience.
* 9. Pathological egocentricity and incapacity to love.
* 10. General poverty in major affective reactions.
* 11. Specific loss of insight.
* 12. Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations.
* 13. Fantastic and uninviting behavior with drink, and sometimes without.
* 14. Suicide threats rarely carried out.
* 15. Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated.
* 16. Failure to follow any life plan.
the desire to kill isn't among these, but because of these factors, psychopaths are more likely to act on violent impulses
2007-02-05 05:46:39 · answer #5 · answered by C_Millionaire 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nope. I'm as crazy as they come and no matter how hard I tried I still ended up guilty... I paid my taxes. Some of that went into the war machine and lots of people are dead now. No way around that.
2007-02-05 05:55:38 · answer #6 · answered by JORGE N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reason this my expensive are those devil already has and this life is all they gets..in the event that they have rejected God then their end stands out as the 2nd dying and Eternity with God it somewhat is a much extra appropriate life to have... they have in simple terms given it up for the Evilness and lust of this life and think of it somewhat is finished filling and satisfied One. they have not have been given any concept that God has something so fantastic for them that in the event that they might learn the two..there is might appear like a life in a small abode with few abode windows. simply by fact God is so Loving, He needs the folk who reject Him to have happiness on the earth,he isn't evil, He Loves His advent, he's in simple terms unhappy they settle for for this reason couple of minutes they might of had all of it and are ignorant of it. Their determination and God respects their determination.
2016-12-17 09:58:24 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as a proffesional,, a very small percentage of people with psyc.problems are agressive and most of them are very peaceful even more than normal people.
2007-02-05 05:35:39 · answer #8 · answered by imma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah sure not all psychopaths are murderers...
2007-02-05 05:36:13 · answer #9 · answered by LaLaLaa♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Better ask themselves... :-)
2007-02-05 05:30:57 · answer #10 · answered by Swathi Rao 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋