Thursday, December 10, 2015

Personality Disorders and True Atrocity

I was once writing on the Internet about mythological character Narcissus, and someone asked me, "What's the difference between Narcissus and Hitler?" My response was, "One killed 50 million people, the other did not."

In recent years it has been fashionable to ascribe atrocity to personality disorders. History proves these people wrong. More people were killed by normal Islamic expansionists and normal European imperialists than by Hitler and Stalin combined. I agree that both Hitler and Stalin were evil; but neither begins to own atrocity.

Most "sociopaths" and most "narcissists" never commit a serious crime in their lives. It is wrong that they be equated with Hitler and Stalin. Imagine what kind of hell it would be to go through life an alien in your species, completely different from people around you and attacked however hard you worked, whatever work you did on yourself and whatever work you've done for others.

The "sociopaths" and "narcissists" get frequently accused of cruelty; but we are finding a greater cruelty here. These people are portrayed as wrongly made; and whatever they do they continue being portrayed as wrongly made. Not even Hitler could have come up with a greater racket.

In focusing on one kind of evil, was ignored much greater evil. Not only that, but greater evil is being created in its own right. Some people are targeted for extermination through no fault of their own. The result is a witch hunt; and all sorts of innocent people get maliciously attacked.

If people are responsible for who they are, then anyone, including a "narcissist" or a "sociopath," can be a good person. And if some people cannot be that, then people are not responsible for who they are. True rationality will see that and act accordingly. And a mentality that cannot allow that cannot be allowed to be called scientific or rational.

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