| ▲ | dolebirchwood 5 hours ago |
| Sociopaths don't have much going for them in life other than winning status games. |
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| ▲ | buzzerbetrayed 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Sociopath is the next word that people seem to want to entirely destroy the meaning of |
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| ▲ | dolebirchwood 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Struck a nerve? | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Struck a nerve? No need to be petty. They have a point. We did this with the words racist and fascist. Overinclusion diluted the term and gave cover for the actual baddies to come in. I'm not sure debating who is and isn't a sociopath is as useful as, say, the degree to which Sam is a liar (versus visible). | | |
| ▲ | greenchair 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Speaking of overinclusion, 'wild' is my nominee for 2026 as I'm seeing it all over the place. | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross an hour ago | parent [-] | | > 'wild' is my nominee for 2026 I don't know how to define the delineation I'm about to propose. But there is a difference between overinclusivity trashing a morally-loaded, potentially even technical, term, and slang evolving. |
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| ▲ | rexpop 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'm sorry, we did what with the word "racist"? | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > we did what with the word "racist"? “Overinclusion diluted the term and gave cover for the actual baddies to come in.” The next sentence. |
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| ▲ | kakacik 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| While true and we can see them literally everywhere where there is some money and/or power (even miniscule places like classic banks have easily 1/3 of the staff with clear sociopathic traits, I have to deal with them daily... or whole politics) - thats just human nature, or part of it. Its up to rest of society to keep them in check since classic morals are highly optional and considered nuissance blocking those games. And here we the rest fail pretty miserably, while having on paper perfect tool - majority vote. |
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| ▲ | lokar 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Or, some fraction of otherwise good/normal people who “win” are turned into sociopaths by the power and sycophancy. |
