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Originally Posted by AcGold
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.
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Who the heck are you arguing with here? Your post has nothing to do with what I wrote. My point was that you do not get tens of thousands of psychopaths all concentrated in one place. Truly evil people and psychopaths are very hard to come by. Otherwise normal, credulous people who can be convinced to practice harmful ideas en masse are widely available, and always have been throughout history. So even if you've got triple the normal population of psychopaths among ISIS, you've still got probably 97% of them who are not.
Frankly, I don't know your background but my understanding is that there is significant doubt as to whether psychopathy is even a thing - many psychologists at this point are skeptical that it may just be lumping a number of behavioural characteristics deemed to be "bad" together and calling it a condition. That's beside the point either way.