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Theists: how do you account for psychopaths?

Poll: How do you account for psychopaths?
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I don’t believe God is responsible for our morality
50.00%
 4 50.00%
I don’t accept that psychopaths really exist
0%
 0 0%
Psychopaths are choosing to ignore their innate sense of right and wrong
0%
 0 0%
God mistakenly misses out psychopaths when granting morality
0%
 0 0%
It’s the psychopath’s fault they have no empathy
25.00%
 2 25.00%
It’s because of “the fall”
0%
 0 0%
Other
25.00%
 2 25.00%
Total 8 vote(s) 100%
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RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths?
May 25, 2018 at 11:27 pm
(May 25, 2018 at 11:21 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:
(May 25, 2018 at 10:53 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote:  In order for people to reach objective conclusions their must be a shared goal, in the case of humans it's well being. Murder is objectively bad for the well being of humans, so we are able to say that it is immoral. Notice you asked about "murder" and not "killing", that's because killing could be moral or immoral depending on the situation.
Mr. Wizard!  Nice to see you around again!

I have been Lurking, but nothing like a good debate on morality to get me posting.
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RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths? - by Mr.wizard - May 25, 2018 at 11:27 pm

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