Ray9
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Incredibly in the wake of school shootings across the country there has been no comprehensive study to determine the cause of the phenomenon. It’s widely accepted that all of the school shooters are psychopaths who act without conscience or remorse but since psychopaths have always existed making up about one percent of the population, there has been no identifying element that explains the modern paradigm of inflicting mass casualties on the innocent.
Since true psychopaths are relatively rare in the population they are isolated and marginalized as individuals by the standard code of conduct of the typical population. The capacity for empathy in the psychopathic brain is wired in the default mode and is activated only voluntarily not unconsciously as it is in the larger community.
The psychopathic individual is able to switch off the self-preservationist reasoning that endows the normal mind to consider the consequences of its actions or the array of effects those actions will have on others. A single goal-oriented result without regard to repercussions or aftermath makes the psychopathic mind fearless it its mission.
Psychopaths make up the majority of violent criminals in our prison systems but it is only recently that they have begun to emerge as independent operators representing a group of like-minded individuals joined together to inflict lethal mayhem on gatherings and crowds.
The tool of choice to accomplish this mission is a currently a gun but removing a physical artifact from the public domain will not deter the psychopath who is kindled by modern technology and finds purpose and companionship on the ever increasing landscape of social media.
Nothing in modern society has triggered the spread of psychopathic carnage like social media that supports it with camaraderie and mass media that glorifies it with infamy. Technological advances in communication have left psychopaths virtually sitting on top of the world.
Going after law abiding citizens and taking defensive weapons out of the hands of the public will have the opposite effect it is designed to encourage. It could leave victims defenseless as they pursue their lives reduced to the anonymity of targets. Psychopaths won’t go away they will just change their tactics. Timothy McVeigh killed 168 with fertilizer.
The cultural and moral decay of our society is producing a perfect storm that energizes evil to an extent that is unprecedented. Feel good solutions and simple answers just won’t work.
Since true psychopaths are relatively rare in the population they are isolated and marginalized as individuals by the standard code of conduct of the typical population. The capacity for empathy in the psychopathic brain is wired in the default mode and is activated only voluntarily not unconsciously as it is in the larger community.
The psychopathic individual is able to switch off the self-preservationist reasoning that endows the normal mind to consider the consequences of its actions or the array of effects those actions will have on others. A single goal-oriented result without regard to repercussions or aftermath makes the psychopathic mind fearless it its mission.
Psychopaths make up the majority of violent criminals in our prison systems but it is only recently that they have begun to emerge as independent operators representing a group of like-minded individuals joined together to inflict lethal mayhem on gatherings and crowds.
The tool of choice to accomplish this mission is a currently a gun but removing a physical artifact from the public domain will not deter the psychopath who is kindled by modern technology and finds purpose and companionship on the ever increasing landscape of social media.
Nothing in modern society has triggered the spread of psychopathic carnage like social media that supports it with camaraderie and mass media that glorifies it with infamy. Technological advances in communication have left psychopaths virtually sitting on top of the world.
Going after law abiding citizens and taking defensive weapons out of the hands of the public will have the opposite effect it is designed to encourage. It could leave victims defenseless as they pursue their lives reduced to the anonymity of targets. Psychopaths won’t go away they will just change their tactics. Timothy McVeigh killed 168 with fertilizer.
The cultural and moral decay of our society is producing a perfect storm that energizes evil to an extent that is unprecedented. Feel good solutions and simple answers just won’t work.
