RE: In support of the rage of man
March 31, 2019 at 5:35 pm
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2019 at 5:36 pm by Belacqua.)
(March 31, 2019 at 4:31 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(March 31, 2019 at 9:01 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Or perhaps those you think of as "alpha males" were actually mentally ill people, who happened to find a socially accepted outlet for their disorders. Most psychopaths and narcissists think of themselves as "alphas". Many people with anti-social disorder probably do too.
Who gets to define illness? You? Does some shrink coming up with a term for a trait actually make it a disease?
I'd say we have to look at the species as a whole. There are so many men who have this particular "illness" that it's clearly an evolved trait. It's clearly not a trait that's well-adapted to civilized society, but that doesn't mean it's not normal and natural.
Yeah, I don't think we can call something a mental illness when the whole society supports and rewards it.
It's an evolved trait, and we can see that culture rewards some of those and tries to suppress others (never perfectly).
Aggression is one of those that people might condemn in the abstract, but easily find a way to justify when they want.