I felt a bit stressed when I saw that the discussion turned into talk about ASPD, and now I realized why.
Firstly, we should hold accountable all people who display unwanted behavior, doesn’t matter their diagnosis. I’m afraid that the focus on ASPD will shift our attention from “all abusive/offensive/deceitful behaviors shouldn’t be accepted” to “let’s be careful if somebody has ASPD”. I think that focusing on (especially repeating) behaviors and consequences is a much better strategy here.
Secondly, it’s hard to diagnose somebody, and doing so in a non-clinical setting is unethical and very hard, so if we start worrying about letting people with ASPD “into EA” we have no way to actually prove or disprove our point. But some people may end up trying, and home-made psychoanalysis is well, not good.
So, to summarize—I personally just think that shifting the focus from “how to trace overall unwanted behavior” to “if EA may attract people with ASPD” may yield worse results.
Yeah, I agree. The only reason I even engaged is because a psych I saw noted down that I show signs of it, and I roll my eyes whenever psychopathy pops up in a discussion cause people just use it as a synonym for malicious.
Reading on ASPD, it’s kinda weird how people read “15% of CEOs and criminals have ASPD” and think “ASPD is the criminality and corruption disease” instead of “85% of people we should watch out for are totally capable of abuse with a perfectly normal brain, so our processes should work regardless of the offender’s brain”.
IDK, just really weird scapegoating. The original point was pretty much just about “malicious bad-faith actors” and nothing to do with ASPD.
Most fraudulent activities were done by normal people that rationalized their way when opportunities or gaps presented to them and they happen to need the financial gain.
I felt a bit stressed when I saw that the discussion turned into talk about ASPD, and now I realized why.
Firstly, we should hold accountable all people who display unwanted behavior, doesn’t matter their diagnosis. I’m afraid that the focus on ASPD will shift our attention from “all abusive/offensive/deceitful behaviors shouldn’t be accepted” to “let’s be careful if somebody has ASPD”. I think that focusing on (especially repeating) behaviors and consequences is a much better strategy here.
Secondly, it’s hard to diagnose somebody, and doing so in a non-clinical setting is unethical and very hard, so if we start worrying about letting people with ASPD “into EA” we have no way to actually prove or disprove our point. But some people may end up trying, and home-made psychoanalysis is well, not good.
So, to summarize—I personally just think that shifting the focus from “how to trace overall unwanted behavior” to “if EA may attract people with ASPD” may yield worse results.
Yeah, I agree. The only reason I even engaged is because a psych I saw noted down that I show signs of it, and I roll my eyes whenever psychopathy pops up in a discussion cause people just use it as a synonym for malicious.
Reading on ASPD, it’s kinda weird how people read “15% of CEOs and criminals have ASPD” and think “ASPD is the criminality and corruption disease” instead of “85% of people we should watch out for are totally capable of abuse with a perfectly normal brain, so our processes should work regardless of the offender’s brain”.
IDK, just really weird scapegoating. The original point was pretty much just about “malicious bad-faith actors” and nothing to do with ASPD.
Most fraudulent activities were done by normal people that rationalized their way when opportunities or gaps presented to them and they happen to need the financial gain.