Psychopaths do not understand sacrificing their lives for a perceived higher good. Martyrdom is alien to them.
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They cannot be blamed on societies teaching boys to repress their emotions. Recruiters are trained in manipulating emotions.
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Psychopaths are also very unreliable. Not great team players. Impulsive. Great manipulators tho. It's a term often used, rarely understood.
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This is why I tweeted about my annoyance of ppl using & describing psychology but knowing nothing about it besides their pop-psych books.
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...as I recall, that guy said he wasn't a psychologist, and yet he's holding forth on it as if he's an authority. What a world.
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Yes. It was bc of him that I tweeted about it. But he's conceding a bit. Many ppl do this. They diagnose everybody. Or conflate psychology
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with sociology or gender studies. They also take statistics & use them to tell their own story. Never thinking that bias, sfp etc may apply
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to them. It can get frustrating. But there seems so willingness to discuss with him. So I feel it's worth a try

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Surely that's a blanket statement? More likely to be overlapping Venn diagrams.
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No. They can join terrorist organisations for profit & power. They can't be fanatical idealists willing to die for a greater good
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The psychology of psychopathy & the psychology of ideological fundamentalism are mutually exclusive.
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Not sure it's that simple. ://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/spycatcher/201502/psychopathy-and-mass-movements
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That can be true as well as the psychology of psychopathy & of fundamentalism being mutually exclusive.
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You're being absolutist. The "profit" could be the afterlife and all the promises associated.
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In theory but in practice, not really. They don't tend to think that way.
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or a warped understanding of reality.
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Yes, when religious, they have a false premise theyre willing to die for.
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