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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 26, 2018 at 9:16 pm (This post was last modified: May 26, 2018 at 9:19 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(May 26, 2018 at 9:03 pm)Kit Wrote: And now we're getting into deep therapy territory that years and years of counseling doesn't help.

I had one year. Does that count? She said she was unable to offer more progress as it was beyond her scope. It wasn't about this though. It was about my abusive father.
(May 26, 2018 at 9:11 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:
(May 26, 2018 at 9:02 pm)Edwardo Piet Wrote: Because of how much I will suffer in the future one day when I die or have the worst day of my life (which is probably yet to come).

What about all the good things though. The joy and love you've experienced... aren't you glad you got the chance to live?

So far I am, yeah. Like I said, I think the worst is yet to come.

I do, after all, believe this: "It is not only the ratio of pleasure to pain that determines the quality of a life, but also the sheer quantity of pain. Once a certain threshold of pain is passed, no amount of pleasure can compensate for it." - David Benetar

Bold added.

I'm not suicidal at all by the way. I enjoy the present moment. The bad shit may not happen until I'm on my deathbed with excruciating cancer. I bet when I am I will be thinking "Life wasn't worth this" though.
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RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths? - by Edwardo Piet - May 26, 2018 at 9:16 pm

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