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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 9:32 pm (This post was last modified: May 26, 2018 at 9:34 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
I really think positive thinking is usually a recipe for unhappiness as it seems to be more about denial and false hope (which leads to frustration and disappointment) than anything. Pessimism is about accepting how crap stuff is and just making the most of it.

You may say "That's not pessimism. That's realism."

But what I'm saying is... if reality really is shit as pessimism claims then pessimism is realism and a more optimistic outlook isn't.

Here's some ideas:



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RE: Theists: how do you account for psychopaths? - by Edwardo Piet - May 26, 2018 at 9:32 pm

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