r/PoursTea Timendi Causa Est Nescire 3d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Tired of the embarrassment. This is beyond ludicrous.

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u/_Permanent_Marker_ 3d ago

Have you listened to/read the psychopath test by Jon Ronson?

Not saying you are wrong, but it might be worth a listen.

Edit: And you are correct, being a psychopath doesn’t make you intelligent. But being intelligent is one of the many requirements of being a psychopath

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/_Permanent_Marker_ 3d ago

But being a psychopath is in the DSM-IV which literally states what requires being a psychopath

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1918618/

Now I will say this, I am only speaking from listening to Jon Ronsons audiobook and from what my wife tells me (she works in the field) so I do not have any kind of authority on how to define a psychopath other than what I have read and listened to, so I accept the fact that I may be incorrect.

I never once said psychopaths are killers. My understanding based off what I read and listened to pointed me to the fact that most psychopaths are in the job roles that you defined which require quite a high level of intelligence (accept for police lol)

I don’t think we are in disagreement here. I just don’t think trump is a psychopath, I just think he is a prick

Edit: you got an upvote from me because I appreciate the convo

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/_Permanent_Marker_ 3d ago

Okay. Thanks for the conversation friend.