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Smiles    Add Comment   1. 1. nullnvoid 10:25 AM 12/26/12
This may be of interest to people who like this article. I wrote
it after [I think erroneously] being assessed as having an anti-
social personality by a psychologist. I believe that the anti-
social personality exists mainly to separate heinous actors from
the rest of us in our own minds.      "There is no doubt that
James Homes is a menace to society. Nevertheless, blindly
referring to anomalies like Homes as "sociopaths" further
contributes to the pathologizing of a set of generally healthy
traits that are necessary for social progress and
counterbalancing "granfalloon" biases in society.
Psychopaths are today's "witch hunt" victims. Every criminal
"must be a sociopath", right? The misguided public assumes that
because someone lacks empathy he's necessarily dangerous