Well, yes, but I was thinking about what to do with sociopaths that are already in the community. If your policy is “we kick out every sociopath we identify”, no sociopath is going to identify themselves to you. I’m not advocating for attracting new sociopaths.
Mind you, I’m assuming here that there are plenty of sociopaths that aren’t that bad, and want to do good, but suffer from the disability of not being able to care emotionally for others. I think it would be good if we could at least keep them out of powerful positions.
This was a pretty uninformed thought of how to deal with sociopaths, but it does feel like a problem worth someone thinking more deeply about.
Maybe some of this is coming from a definitional difference—sociopathy as a “disability of not being able to care emotionally for others” is different from it being akin to, if not an obsolete synonym for, antisocial personality disorder. I don’t think calling people who lack affective empathy, without more, sociopaths is likely to be helpful.
Well, yes, but I was thinking about what to do with sociopaths that are already in the community. If your policy is “we kick out every sociopath we identify”, no sociopath is going to identify themselves to you. I’m not advocating for attracting new sociopaths.
Mind you, I’m assuming here that there are plenty of sociopaths that aren’t that bad, and want to do good, but suffer from the disability of not being able to care emotionally for others. I think it would be good if we could at least keep them out of powerful positions.
This was a pretty uninformed thought of how to deal with sociopaths, but it does feel like a problem worth someone thinking more deeply about.
Maybe some of this is coming from a definitional difference—sociopathy as a “disability of not being able to care emotionally for others” is different from it being akin to, if not an obsolete synonym for, antisocial personality disorder. I don’t think calling people who lack affective empathy, without more, sociopaths is likely to be helpful.
Ah, I wasn’t aware that that wasn’t the conventional definition. Thanks for the correction.
Still, I think it’s important to somehow manage both sets of people and we can probably do better, though my idea is quite random.