Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution
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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.
I know. That's why I asked you. I think schizophrenia is real, for example.
I think most of the major mental illnesses are quite real. The subcategorizations get a little dicey, because humans aren't uniform enough for those more precise mental illnesses to consistently manifest. So you end up with the same maladaptive behavior internally showing up as three+ different illnesses despite being the same thing.
We lack the technology necessary to truly understand the brain in any depth, and until that day is reached its going to always be a pretty rough system we are working under relying heavily on self reporting, aka the brain explaining the brain after the information has been run through the brain.
Which also means our solutions to those illnesses is shoddy at best. Its why almost all meds are some variation of "turn them into zombie, no longer is showing symptoms underneath all the lethargy."