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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
This has always baffled me. Sure, it may be comforting and even get you some cheap applaud to refer to all these people as mentally deranged psychopaths bent on deliberately perpetrating pure evil... but how on Earth did they manage to find so many evil psychopaths and organize them all so well? It's a theory that should fall apart after thinking about it for ten seconds.
The better answer is that when indoctrinated with horrifying ideas, people who might, in a different universe, been perfectly well-adjusted members of a modern global society behave in awful ways.
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Actually no, quite the opposite. Psychopaths are often very intelligent. Psychopathy involves most importantly lack of empathy and a conscience. Psychopaths are capable of organizing and the mental illness does not exclude intelligent behavior requiring high levels of cognitive ability. Schizophrenics, dissociative or delusional type people will have more trouble as the cognitive ability is not there.
A psychopath is often smart enough to smile right at you and convince you they're your friend when all they intend is to use you. It's a complex type of mental illness and requires substantial research to fully understand.