Posted by Lunatic on April 17, 2000, at 3:22:11
In reply to Sociopathy - a mental illness?, posted by boB on April 16, 2000, at 21:30:37
Mental illness, to a court, is the inability to perceive or anticipate the consequences of
ones actions, and a lack of moral judgement. Sociopathy is the choice to make the
wrong moral decision.It might be constructive to consider sociopathy a mental illness. The system as is isn't working very well is it? Maybe these undesirable behaviors could be controlled with psychotropic drugs? How many criminals do you know of who have been rehabilitated by the present system? When the courts declared that Jeffrey Dalmer was sane this struck me as absolute stupidity. He is sane?! I think he should represent one of the worst possible cases of insanity. What the courts say is irrelevant to psychology anyway, isn't it? What if you have different groups of people who don't share a common morality? What do the courts say, except our morality and our interests or you'll be sorry? Is this likely to work?
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