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Comment by CaptainZapp | Hacker News Reader

I agree.

But there seem to be a bunch of people with sociopath tendencies, mostly in finance, tech & politics, which don't seem to be affected at all by this.

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I believe sociopathy involves disconnecting from parts of oneself. While initially this may seem like an advantageous 'adaptation', but if the process continues, it can result in a fragmented self, painful pathology and intense suffering.

There's a reason people joke about schizophrenics innately recognizing psychopaths.

"What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?"

There's also a ton of people that simply don't get that others could have a valid different point of view and instead view everyone who does something different than they would have as "must be evil sociopath"

It's all fun semantic games until it causes other people actual harm or loss. Which in this case is fairly small (failed kickstarter fraud, those are ten a penny), but for the big political leaders can have a large body count.

Today I'm thinking of the recently deceased convicted perjurer and world's most successful prison author, Lord Jeffrey Archer.

I mean people like Thiel or Musk are on record saying stuff like "Maybe evil isn't bad" or "empathy is a weakness".

People get lost in conditional existence, advancing their own agenda, morals changing by degrees, until they end up in very difficult positions.

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