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Comment author: ChristianKl 02 November 2014 10:22:37PM 1 point [-]

I don't want to speak about politics here, but I believe that many political conflicts are so bad because most of the sides have sociopaths as their leaders.

How do you come to that conclusion? Simply because you don't agree with their actions? Otherwise are there trained psychologists who argue that position in detail and try to determine how politicians score on the Hare scale?

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 03 November 2014 07:58:49AM 1 point [-]

How do you come to that conclusion? Simply because you don't agree with their actions?

Uhm, no. Allow me to quote from my other comment:

If I tried to estimate a sociopathy scale from 0 to 10, in my life I have personally met one person who scores 10, two people somewhere around 2, and most nasty people were somewhere between 0 and 1, usually closer to 0.

I hope it illustrates that my mental model has separate buckets for "people I suspect to be sociopaths" and "people I disagree with".

Comment author: ChristianKl 03 November 2014 03:58:54PM 1 point [-]

Diagnosing mental illness based on the kind of second hand information you have about politicians isn't a trivial effort. Especially if you lack the background in psychology.

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