I think @DarkMetatron@feddit.de is implying for us to be better than them and not stoop to killing. (I am neither agreeing nor disagreeing and am just inferring this line of thought.)

I totally get that they’re outrageously upsetting people, but what would be the governing body to go get them and how would you ensure that they wouldn’t simply money themselves out of it? Like someone else on here said, more would just crop up if you don’t enact a systemwide change to adjust people’s mindsets in the first place.

Everything I pulled up online said psychopathy development definitely involves both nature and nurture (some articles said the influence is even), and we sure as heck haven’t exhausted the latter yet: nowhere near.

We need to stay fully objective here and acknowledge that @devolution@lemmy.world is at least partly correct:

“Some genetic heritability studies have noted there may be baseline deviations in emotional processing circuitry (such as in the amygdala or reward centers of the brain) and neurotransmitter profiles (such as serotonin or dopaminergic deficits) in people meeting criteria for psychopathic traits that may eventually lead to callous behaviors and indifference towards social norms (but interestingly not always).” - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culture-shrink/202203/are-psychopaths-born-or-made

Denser reading:

In the specific genes that may be involved, one gene that has shown particular promise in its correlation with ASPD is the gene that encodes for monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A), an enzyme that breaks down monoamine neurotransmitters such as serotonin and norepinephrine. Various studies examining the gene’s relationship to behavior have suggested that variants of the gene resulting in less MAO-A being produced (such as the 2R and 3R alleles of the promoter region) have associations with aggressive behavior in men.[77][78]

This association is also influenced by negative experiences early in life, with children possessing a low-activity variant (MAOA-L) who have experienced negative circumstances being more likely to develop antisocial behavior than those with the high-activity variant (MAOA-H).[79][80] Even when environmental interactions (e.g., emotional abuse) are taken out of the equation, a small association between MAOA-L and aggressive and antisocial behavior remains.[81]

The gene that encodes for the serotonin transporter (SLC6A4), a gene that is heavily researched for its associations with other mental disorders, is another gene of interest in antisocial behavior and personality traits. Genetic association studies have suggested that the short “S” allele is associated with impulsive antisocial behavior and ASPD in the inmate population.[82] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder

I didn’t know this until now myself (I’ve seen the above article earlier but must have skimmed through it long ago and missed or forgot all that). However, there’s also a lot about the environment further exposing or shutting down sociopathic tendencies, as I noted in another comment here. It could be more difficult to round up these people (who are masters at lying anyway) versus enacting your systemwide proposal to forcefully integrate empathy through all levels of society. The problem is applying it to the highest echelons where it matters most—and, frankly, who @devolution@lemmy.world’s proposed guillotine should apply to the most either way; they’d both be hard to do… maybe together?

Oh, I thought you were referring to physical disabilities, like all Down-syndrome people, etc.

Well, I’ve never read of a sociopath who had said, “I was raised in a normal family.” I thought this was a really interesting read:

The gene loaded the gun, but the environment pulled the trigger.

This gene-environment interaction helps explain why two siblings with similar genetics can turn out very differently. The child who experiences abuse or neglect while carrying a susceptibility gene faces compounding risk, while the sibling who grows up in a safer environment may never express those traits at all.

- https://scienceinsights.org/is-sociopathy-genetic-nature-nurture-and-the-brain/

Oh, I agree. I intentionally avoid subscriptions to these giants to the point of downloading everything I want for totally offline play. Can you do that, and bring a Bluetooth speaker to play music from your phone in your pocket?

That’s exactly what I was thinking. Why would they want to turn down the ability to collect surveillance data on all their enemies?

Wait, are you calling for a genocide of all people with inherited, terminal syndromes? Are you serious? What about CRISPR?

True, @Murse@slrpnk.net could pay for it using the mental health fund their company provides! Wait…

in my adult life

But then that begs the question of how old you are, assuming it’s your first phone, unless you just somehow managed to get around without a phone, which seems impossible. Or I suppose the rest were hand-me-downs.

By the way, if it matters, I felt neutral to your position. Like, I don’t think people here should be acting so violently against you, but I also get the appeal of certain artists and that there will just inevitably be world-level artists, even if I don’t follow this one specifically. Like, I do think it can fit in here but that it’s not the strongest of fits, as well.

Off-topic: Is this the only post across all of Lemmy whose comments are nearly 2x as many as its upvotes?

Well gee, then go on with the rest of the list. How can you just tantalize us like that and not feel bad?

the Good Place

Dang it, I’ve gotta finish that show… Forgot about it.

Wait, what’s the third?

Hilarious!

All the article writers had to do was add the word “once”…

France’s government is actively leaving Windows for Linux as you read this. I’m about to follow suit, too.

whatever the European equivalent of the Library of Congress is

Yeah! Um… what is that again?