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?
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".
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