Standing n.b.: With rare exceptions, human/social phenomena are *continuous.* To treat them as discrete is merely a convenient shorthand.
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There's no such thing as a "sociopath" or a "democracy" any more than there are discrete "species" or black-and-white "adaptations."
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sometimes disruptive selection has been through and destroyed all the tidy continua
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it is so odd that intellectually people feel the need to discretize when so little of the world calls for that
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