Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution
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Sociopathy isn't a real thing, and continuing to use it grants them far more power and prestige (thanks to generations of Hollywood literally making it up to make nonsensical characters work) than they deserve.
But I guess amoral and degenerate are still too big of no-no words because bad men used them.
What's the difference?
Sociopathy tries to give it an air of being an actual clinical disorder, which it isn't and the closest, antisocial personality disorder, only vaguely appears like it sometimes. Its at best a Legal Term that lawyers made up to try and get the Insanity defense.
Amoral and degenerate and all the other relevant labels are moral judgments, which denies these types the label of "special neurodivergents" they crave so much. And simply says they are actively evil shitbags choosing to be such due to being weak, pathetic, and/or malicious.
Would it be easier and shorter to list mental illnesses that are real?
Its against the common narrative here, but I think Psychology is in fact real.