Sociopathy as a concept makes no sense to me because it's framed as a refusal to engage in abstractly prosocial behaviors + a strategic disposition rather than as an engagement in specific and concrete immoral behaviors. There are circumstances where mass murder is "prosocial".
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I think "sociopath" is the new "witch" tbh. It's not ontological. It describes categories that are perpetually shifting, easily invoked and easily turned back on people. There are people the label describes better or worse but there's no good mechanism for reliably applying it.
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We would be better off just directly moralizing imho, rather than aiming for objectivity in a way that carries this residual morality that we are then forbidden to even suggest is present, let alone analyze in depth.
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