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What makes a psychopath a psychopath?

seriously. i have read all of the nonsense literary salad of analysis on why someone goes crazy. but i want to know your opinion.
the first 4 years of my life, i was Appalachian, then i was moved to Cincy. Cincy....where hopefully no one knows your name....where if you didn't belong to some cult and behave like a gang member, you were the outcast.

the family that raised me were drunks druggies perverts and murderers and so were all their friends and relatives. and all the kids i went to school with. and i was ostracized. i never did drugs, my drinking was laughable, and i smoked because being in a smoky room drove me nuts unless i was smoking. i didn't sleep around.

i was nice nice nice....and all people did was attack me and lie about me. Why do i have no wish to murder and destroy people?

Why was i never a pervert or weirdo? i don't even cut or steal....am i not human?



See...these are the things we need to understand to keep these school shootings from happening.... what is it that makes the difference?
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Pretzel · 70-79, M
wow...that's so weird....

I've seen families be good - seriously nice and decent people.

And others...seems like almost everyone in the family belongs in jail.

The only thing I can say is maybe you had a recessive gene
@Pretzel so you think there is a sane gene? that would be interesting.

and you are lucky. usually when i met a family that seemed all nice and good....it wasn't and i found out years later....or i was too young to understand what was going on at such a young age... and then figured it out later
Pretzel · 70-79, M
@LILY61 I have been blessed to find wonderful people - including my own extended family - I never realized the depth of depravity and evil until the last couple of decades.

and when I think I've heard it all - someone drops the door a little lower

sanity gene? not sure

evil gene? I think there must be. and the combination of nature and nurture produces beings that should be taken down like a rabid dog.
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