Society turning sociopathic

[Kitan Etos]

[Ravenshire]

Turning? No. The veneer is rubbing off and now we can see what's always been lurking underneath.

[Rev. Rye]

Sociopathy or just Standard Operating Procedure for unfettered capitalism? You make the call!

Honestly, there's a lot of room where we can argue society as a whole is becoming more and more sociopathic, but what Umair is talking about isn't so much society as a small cadre of elites who are willing to bone life on Earth for everyone in pursuit of a little extra cash, even if they already have enough money they can probably create Scrooge McDuck's bank vault-cum-money swimming pool IRL.

[Anomalocaris]

Sociopathy always had been of great advantage in gaining and keeping power and wealth. So it may be assumed amongst the powerful in any society is a great over-representation of sociopaths compared to the society in general.

The difference is in the prevailing social morality and social structure, how nakedly self-serving can the sociopaths be before backlash overwhelms the power they’ve gathered.

[brewer]

Claiming that the US/world is turning more sociopathic is not accurate and a bit whiny. Compare today to the prior century. Prior millennium.

Could society do better.......... yes. Every society could always do better. Are we slipping backwards.......... not by a long shot.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Sociopathy isn’t getting worse, it’s just getting filmed.

Boru