Patriot, I suspect his mindset was affected when he noticed what was permanently missing. But i never bought into the crap they try to sell the public they can change their mindset.
You're right of course. I just refer back to my own hetero orientation toward adult women. First off, I enjoy conversing about mature topics (not just sex but art, technology and other stuff) with an adult woman. So, I can't even really understand pedophiles and rapists from my perspective. The only way I can understand such people is to realize that they are predatory. That's what gets them off. Sure, I don't get it and most likely never will. How they got that way is a thing for researchers and scientists to explain.
Can they change or be changed? Again, from my own perspective, nope. No more than you can change my orientation. You couldn't make me a fag or pedo no matter what. I would psychologically implode if someone tried to force me. So, no, I don't think rehabilitation of these predators is possible at all.
In my mind, from all I know or have read, they are missing critical functions in their mind. They are defective. It's like trying to tune a radio in a car that doesn't have an actual radio behind the dials. Sure, it looks like a radio, has dials that move and all that but there's nothing behind it.
All the public needs to know is that these defective humans can never be in our society. They can actually do brain scans and find these people that lack normal human empathy. In the scans these people show up as clearly psychotic. Those regions of the brain don't function properly or at all. In other words, emotional music doesn't really effect them. They don't cry or get sad watching sad movie scenes and those areas just don't light up on the scans.
They do feel anger and fear which are base emotional responses even an alligator feels. They can mimic emotional responses but the responses will be nothing more than play acting to elicit a response from the targeted person. Some are very good at mimicry which is why so many are able to get into politics and positions of power and authority.
Patriot, i am glad you shared this, because it really assists people in relating this experience in life to what is being applied today. And how one can overcome this.
I agree with you, I do not see them changing either. We have seen this in LE in the past to many times.
And time for people to realize, it is one thing to have compassion, but one must not allow that compassion to override the reality.
Also makes one ask, how many personalities do they really have ?
As with any mental abnormality away from being healthy to truly dysfunctional and or dangerous there is always going to be a wide spectrum of disorder from mild and annoying to dangerous and pure evil destructive.
Just as in autism spectrum you have high functioning and intelligent to severely effected and not able to function in life and take care of needs and personal goals you can have the same variety of dysfunction in psychotic minds that vary from being somewhat disinterested and unfeeling to a person who has a criminal mind set that can vary in behavior and goals depending on the type and severity of the dysfunction.
However, I've learned over time there are some signs that cover almost all of these ranges of dysfunction.
Faking emotions to manipulate others. Some are good at it and others just crude and easy to spot. But, the faked emotions are most often overplayed for effect.
Laughter is often forced faked or inappropriate. They just don't get it so they laugh at things most people don't think are funny, they fail to get real humor and can't laugh at themselves. If they do, it's insincere. They don't feel it, but they can mimic it.
If they are offended they lash out viciously attacking the person they supposed offended them. Either attacking by disparaging remarks or physically. Or attack by sabotage. In their mind a person becomes an enemy and must be destroyed either socially or physically.
They love to gather personal details to remember and use later against a person when needed.
Music is one thing they can't feel emotionally so either they are just never interested in music or fake it for show.
Another strange thing I noticed. They often do tuneless humming or whistling. Why? To fill the void in their own mind or distract them from mental chaos.
I worked with a guy and when we were taking a break I wanted to share some touching music with him. He was unimpressed. I tried to share other music with him but nothing impressed him and he finally said he didn't enjoy music but just listened to it for the noise. I found that puzzling as he always seemed to be doing some tuneless whistling or humming.
Later I discovered he had played me to get the job and was busy scheming to get me run off, take over and take my job. Toward the end he was openly challenging me on a project interjecting his own agenda and messing things up. When I tried to correct him and confront him and remind him why he was there in the first place and why I let him work with me he became offended and angry and started making threats. I reported him, the boss refused to deal with it so I just quit. I won't be around these sorts but his behavior puzzled me so I looked up the psychology of tuneless whistling or humming. Turns out he was exactly what I feared. Mentally ill but high functioning. He couldn't care less how bad he hurt me or upset me by threatening me. He cared nothing for my position and how much effort I put into learning my trade and had no gratitude to the trade secrets I shared with him. If I had known in advance his mental condition I would never have shared a thing with him or let him work with me. He's an example of a high functioning psychotic. Believe me, they come in all ranges and often with other complications depending on how they were nurtured as a child.
Here's the main difference between a psychotic and a sociopath. A psychotic is born a sociopath is created. A psychotic can't really be changed but a sociopath can be helped.
Reaching out to help a psychotic will just give them more tools to do more harm as they learn techniques. That's why a psychologist who knows better will not try to help a psychotic. They will learn the psychobabble and then use it to fool other mental health experts. They can go on a long time fooling well meaning experts until the expert wises up that they are being played and stops treatment. You've got to be pretty clever to fool an intelligent mental health worker but these psychotics do it all the time.
A sociopath often really wants to be better but due to very dysfunctional family life has learned to distrust any authority, rebel against society and becomes a criminal. Or just a dysfunctional person who knows they are messed up and withdraws from society, can't hold down a regular job or creates conflicts in jobs and relationships, knows they are messing up and struggles.
Anyone can grow up to be a sociopath but you have to be born a psychotic to be one.
Remember the politician who laughed inappropriately and found great mirth in the murder of a head of state? "We came, we saw, he died! Bhahahahaha!". A born psychotic. They lie with ease because they feel no remorse. They feel no shame and never will and they never repent. If they say they are sorry, it's a lie. These are the human predators. You are safe around them until the moment they realize you see right through them and understand. They wear the mask of humanity and if you dare to peek under it they are outraged and know they must destroy you to hide that vital bit of knowledge you just discovered.
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