In Sikhism, God is understood as 'Truth' ("The name of God is Truth" is the first line in their holy book), and to be aligned with God is to be aligned with the Truth.

I don't claim to be a paragon of honesty or virtue, but through my experiences I've generally understood that lack of virtue can and does trap one in cycles of misery, anxiety & suffering.

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CaptainZapp 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I agree.

But there seem to be a bunch of people with sociopath tendencies, mostly in finance, tech & politics, which don't seem to be affected at all by this.

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N_Lens 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I believe sociopathy involves disconnecting from parts of oneself. While initially this may seem like an advantageous 'adaptation', but if the process continues, it can result in a fragmented self, painful pathology and intense suffering.

There's a reason people joke about schizophrenics innately recognizing psychopaths.

"What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?"

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socalgal2 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

There's also a ton of people that simply don't get that others could have a valid different point of view and instead view everyone who does something different than they would have as "must be evil sociopath"

	▲	N_Lens an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I mean people like Thiel or Musk are on record saying stuff like "Maybe evil isn't bad" or "empathy is a weakness". People get lost in conditional existence, advancing their own agenda, morals changing by degrees, until they end up in very difficult positions.