Is it normal that i kinda wish i was a pychopath...

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because generally psychopaths are a lot smarter than the rest of us, they know how to manipulate people to get where they want to be. They can control their emotions, or better yet, just not have any..and honestly some days i wish i could have that, it would make life so much easier. They come off as charming (due to the fact that they can manipulate the way others see them) and they don't have to be psycho killers either, because those who aren't born into a troubled background don't feel as though they need to kill people.

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  • Short4Words
    10 years ago | pl

    I know a guy who has tendencies like that, he's not very happy.

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    • RoseIsabella
      10 years ago

      Often times people like that end up in jail.

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      • bemah
        10 years ago

        I'd say only the stupid ones end up in prison.

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    • bemah
      10 years ago

      Having those traits would make me happy.

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      • Short4Words
        10 years ago

        You really don't understand what it's like being like that, I have to convince him every day that there is still good in him and he struggles so hard to believe that. He is convinced he's bad. If you were smart you wouldn't wish that upon yourself.

        Besides you don't need to be a psychopath to be charming, you could I don't know just try to be happy and be yourself. And the more true to who you are, the happier you will be and people will notice that. I guess you feel for whatever reason you have no control over your social standing or how others perceive you. Even if you could manipulate others and even if you could get what you want, you would never be who you would want to be operating like that.

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  • Avant-Garde
    10 years ago

    In a parallel universe, you might actually be one.

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  • Karmasbitch
    10 years ago

    I can understand where your coming from, I just don't think that being a psychopath is the correct answer.
    Understandable, but not normal.

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    • hitchman
      10 years ago

      i just wanna let loose and create a huge bloody massacre with men, women and child. i see children andjust wanna crush their skulls and squish their brains between my toes lol.

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  • disthing
    10 years ago

    You have a naive view of psychopaths.

    You should learn more about antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy and sociopathy, and those with said disorders.

    "Generally psychopaths are a lot smarter than us" - that isn't true.
    "They can control their emotions, or better yet just not have any" - also not true.
    "They know how to manipulate people to get where they want to be" - also not necessarily true.

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    • hitchman
      10 years ago

      I jus hate the world, it has made me numb. no one takes me seriously or gives me a chance. im filled with so much rage, ive thought about killing my mom because of what she has put me through. thought of killing my girlfriend and jus ppl i see on the bus or walkin down the street. anyone who comes into my sight i picture myself killing them or entering their home after i stalk them and plan out how i can leave little evidence and get away..

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      • disthing
        10 years ago

        You're a troll. I'm not going to engage you in serious discussion.

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        • hitchman
          10 years ago

          we're in the final stages now, the game can only end when the pawn the wrote the rules can declare it's finally over. Everyone else will only open another can of worms.. and we've all been falling down the rabbit hole for quite some time now, eh? Fortunately though, compared to the size of a black-hole we are already to small to fail; like an Atom in Adam's body. You would have no idea that it's only ONE cell or molecule that urns the entire body sickly, but atom<Adam versus Adam<star, it's a lot like trying to find that pesky needle in a haystack which always manages to prick us somehow. P.s. the prick is the messenger.. hope you've all caught on/learned this from your Shadow-counselor.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    No, not all psychopaths are smarter than others. Yes, there are psychopaths that are smarter than others, but that is just one type of psychopath.
    Personally, I believe this stems from the lacking of emotional responses to hold back rational thoughts.

    Again, this is just one type of psychopath, not all psychopaths know how to manipulate well, and psychopaths are not the only ones good at manipulation, there are multiple types of people that have a talent for manipulation. I, for one, although having being called a psychopath or a sociopath by people on here that aren't capable to give an accurate diagnosis (they're wrong, to put it short), am good at manipulation, as I am sure many people are that have no personality or mental disorder.

    They can't control their emotions, they don't have any, except for the exception of anger, in which they don't tend to be very good at controlling if met with the certain clicks that genuinely make them feel angry.

    I doubt you would like it. What they lack in emotional stress they make up for in the need for power and control, which is harder to maintain.
    I think you have this impression that psychopaths have this care-free life in which nothing burdens them, which would be wrong, they have just as much, if not more, to burden them, just in a different way than normal people.

    "They come off as charming (due to the fact that they can manipulate the way others see them) and they don't have to be". This tends to be to gain something else, not just for the sake of being a charming person.
    If the area in which they are charming becomes negative towards a psychopath, they will end up becoming more chaotic than their charming persona.

    They don't need to kill people? No, they don't, but a lot of them feel the need to, and a lot of them that don't kill in some way do it due to them not wanting the risk of being imprisoned or on death row, in which they have to cope with this urge that they want but can never have, up until the day they die.
    Just because a psychopath was not raised in a troubled background does not mean they do not want to kill.

    Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahlmer, pretty psychotic people, if not the primary psycho-killers we think of when the topic arises - They were not from an abusive background.

    I think you are basing psychopathy from what you see in TV, books, games, or so on. Most psychopaths do not run under those cliches of what a psychopath is, and infact, I would say most psychopaths are quite pathetic. There are those that do fall under the cliche of what a psychopath is, don't get me wrong, but they are the minority.
    Psychopaths are likely to have addictions to things such as drugs, alcohol, and so on.

    I don't think you would like to be one very much, unless you are speaking about the cliche psychopath, then perhaps I can see your point.

    Fun fact: Psychopaths are perhaps the best types of people to ironically save someone's life. They are capable of making a choice between killing one person to save the many without hesitation as to the morality aspect or guilt.

    Just something I thought was interesting.

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    • bemah
      10 years ago

      Very interesting. You've made some pretty good points here.

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  • Darkoil
    10 years ago

    I check nearly all the boxes which are required to be considered a psychopath however I'm sure my lack of empathy stems from my scientific belief that nobody on this planet matters. If half the planet were to die while I sleep tonight I would happily get up tomorrow morning and go to work without giving it a second thought.

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    • lufa
      10 years ago

      Well there's no 'belief' in science that says nobody matters, however I think it's just our own egocentric perspective-we think others' lives don't matter since we don't interact with them in any meaningful way.

      Though I do share in your view that there are billions of people who are completely useless and if they disappeared, human civilization might even be the better for it.

      To an extent I'm a eugenicists, but not in the Nazi sense, more in terms of refining the gene pool by preventing losers from breeding. Though I'm sure it'd open a can of worms.

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      • Darkoil
        10 years ago

        Don't try and tell me what I do and don't believe in and don't say we because we are nothing alike.

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        • lufa
          10 years ago

          That's right, we're nothing alike, you're a self-proclaimed psychopath, I'm not.

          Secondly 'scientific belief' is an oxymoron, there is no scientific basis for your subjective opinion that 'nobody on this planet matters.' So don't use the word 'science' in a sense when you have no idea what you're talking about.

          I'm not telling you what you believe, you said it yourself and I said I agreed to an extent, dumbass.

          But there is one thing we are alike, that we wouldn't care if a large fraction of the human population disappeared. So why are you contradicting yourself?

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          • Darkoil
            10 years ago

            Ok Mr Know-it-all.
            Firstly I didn't proclaim to be a psychopath, if you read my first statement correctly you will see I was actually saying I don't think I am.

            Secondly you are still trying to tell me what I do or don't believe in because your saying what I believe in is not scientific. My opinion may be just an opinion but I have come to my own conclusions due to studying different areas of science, mainly astrophysics, evolution and neurology. Due to the complex nature of what I actually believe in, it could never be proven but it is still a scientific belief. The big bang theory can never be proven but that also is still a scientific belief.

            And in regards to me not knowing what I'm talking about, well I have multiple degrees in various areas of science including a postgraduate so I like to think I know a little bit about what I'm talking about.

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            • lufa
              10 years ago

              "Firstly I didn't proclaim to be a psychopath, if you read my first statement correctly you will see I was actually saying I don't think I am."

              Oh you mean this statement:

              "I check nearly all the boxes which are required to be considered a psychopath"

              Where you declare that you check all the boxes to be considered a psychopath, read "correctly" would mean the exact opposite of that? Talk about contradicting yourself.

              Ya I'm in agreement with you, you definitely are a psychopath and given your self-contradicting nature, a schizophrenic.

              If your 'belief' cannot be 'proven' then it is the opposite of science. You seem to have no clue what science involves. Both my undergrad and graduate degrees are in science and I can easily see through your bullshit.

              The Big Bang theory is not a 'belief', which is the acceptance of a claim as fact without evidence. Rather it is a scientific hypothesis, which based on the evidence leads to the conclusion that our universe originated from the big bang.

              You sound like too much of a dumbass to have even entered first year undergrad, let alone complete multiple degrees. So you're probably just lying or you got your degree by mail order.

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    • Jfdp
      10 years ago

      pretty normal really, after all that's humanities biggest strength and biggest weakness, our ability to switch ourselves off if we so choose

      Cuz hey, you could hear tomorrow about some war that's killed 900 000 people in the last five years- Would it really matter? Unless your life was affected by it in some way, I.E relative is a victim , no you probably wouldn't, because life goes on, i'm sure in Bosnia, Rwanda, Nazi Germany and everywhere something horrible has occurred, is occurring, or will occur, the sun rises each morning, the birds sing and the wind blows, and nothing really changes

      - because as you said, if half the worlds population died but your country was unnafected, nothing would come to a standstill people would shake their heads, sigh, and maybe pray for the souls the lost in religious in churches, temples, synogouges and mosques but, people would shrug after a while and carry on , because loes on

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  • ThatCreepyWhiteGuy
    10 years ago

    im crazy. not smart. not charismatic. just crazy.

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  • lufa
    10 years ago

    Nowadays they're known as sociopaths, only small minority are actually dangerous but the rest can be destructive to themselves and others.

    I believe a close relative of mine is a sociopath. She's very smart (usually, not always), extremely good at manipulating others and basically has most of the hallmark traits of a sociopath.

    I can tell you that if her family (including myself) was not there in her life, chances are she'd end up killing herself and her kids because she makes horrendous life decisions with very serious consequences and doesn't see it till it's too late.

    You might get the wrong idea and think a sociopath is in control of their condition. It's the exact opposite, they're almost like automatons, being controlled by their maladaptive disposition.

    People who are 'normal' can act like psycho/sociopaths, but we don't because we have other faculties such as the sense of remorse, foresight, volition and so forth which allows us to make wiser decisions.

    I'm sure I've made my point by now, a sociopath is nothing to envy and they ultimately leave a path of destruction, including their own if they aren't helped by their betters.

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  • justsomekidfromcanada
    10 years ago

    You're not very good with people so you'd rather be a cold, emotionless, damaged human that would probably want nothing more than to be just like you? Damn dude. Just read "how to win friends and influence people" and have fun not being a psychopath.

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  • _Molotov_Cocktail_
    10 years ago

    I sometimes wish I was a psychopath. The best remedy is to throw Molotov cocktails until you start to feel normal again. Works every time.

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  • KatieLiz
    10 years ago

    If you think psychopaths who've had good childhoods don't feel homicidal tendencies then you need to do more research. Even with the most idyllic childhoods, psychopaths tend to be angry, violent people, usually towards the ones who love them the most.

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  • DolphinAngel
    10 years ago

    In general you just wish to be smarter and thus able to manipulate people...

    Whilst I'd say I'm pretty smart and not utterly emotional I say that it doesn't feel that much desirable to me... And even so I can manipulate people quite easily, I tend to not do this since I see no need to mess with people at all...

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