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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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Theists: how do you account for psychopaths?
May 22, 2018 at 4:58 am
I hear many religious theists saying they believe morality "comes from God". I find the existence of psychopaths to be troubling to this idea. I wonder if you'd share how this fits in for you. Please add some explanation if you can, following your poll choice.

I'm using the scientific definition of a psychopath (a person with no empathy). They are generally considered to fall outside the scope of morality, as they have no innate feelings of right and wrong.

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Theists: how do you account for psychopaths? - by robvalue - May 22, 2018 at 4:58 am

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