Westerners who are Psychopaths

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Re: Westerners who are Psychopaths

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newkidontheblock wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 4:44 am
SaigonBilly wrote:I think a lot are Disabled US Veterans with PTSD.
For the simple fact is that they have a monthly compensation from the military for having been injured while in the line of duty.
As opposed to what?

That America should give them nothing while injured protecting our freedoms?

PTSD is caused by the military giving them compensation?

So if soldiers are injured, the government should just kick them out into the street and thus solve the PTSD problem?

I don’t get it.
Well, just for the record, I'm the OP, AND neither of the two Expats I encountered that were the impetus for this thread are Americans. Me, I'm a US Army Veteran. They were neither US citizens nor, to my knowledge, Veterans who served in their own home country's military.
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Re: Westerners who are Psychopaths

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siliconlife wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 8:02 am
nuzen wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 7:56 am
StroppyChops wrote: Tue Feb 12, 2019 7:44 pm
clutchcargo wrote: Sat Feb 09, 2019 7:54 am OP- what is your understanding of a 'psychopath'?

Coz googling the meaning of it gives a number of different interpretations/definitions ranging from mild to serious..
I'm wondering if the OP actually means sociopath.
No, I'm the OP, and I meant Psychopath, as in Expats who threaten me, wanting to kill me, or have me dead. In all my years before, I never met such naked evil intent.
There you go! Now that you've defined "psychopath", we actually know what this whole thread is all about!
Haha, yeah Ok. I see your point. Well done, siliconlife. I'm now wondering about that user name, "siliconlife". You're not from the Silicon Valley. Care to assuage my wondering?
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For serial murderers and violent people I am not sure how to identify them. I get worried when I meet people who have violent imagery in their conversations for no reason. When a person is overly secretive and never talks about their work, I wonder why. From what I have read, have your guard up around people that have excessive charm and are immediately likable. While they may be perfectly good people, charm and likability are also weapons of dangerous people. These are characteristics that dangerous people work hard to cultivate and the rest of us usually don't have the time for.

The killer I knew, was scary. He was volatile and violent. It seemed like he could attack anyone at anytime. It was easy to detect him because he wanted everyone to be afraid of him. Some other dangerous guys also seem to want me to know how dangerous they are.

For a scammer I think detection is different (although the killer was also a scammer): I tried to learn the tricks of an apparently non-violent scammer by asking him to use his methods to try to scam me (I knew he was a scammer because he loved to tell about his scamming victories.)

He had so many tricks that I doubt I could ever learn enough to detect all of them in a real situation. It was good to know how he thought, but I concluded that we can not outwit a scammer who puts enough effort into finding our weak points, and then using them to scam or coerce us.

(Some dirty tricks are just too dirty to defend against. It's like avoiding an accident. Sometimes you can't. We have to hope for a certain amount of luck in life.)

However, I noticed that when he started pushing me to do something I would not normally do, my emotions went up and down in a way that was different than normal for me. He triggered feelings of greed, jealousy, etc. While I can't know all his tricks, I can be aware of when my emotions are changing in ways that are not normal for me.

etc etc etc
Jeez - you think too much!!

And you sound a little scary because of that......
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simon43 wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 8:35 am
For serial murderers and violent people I am not sure how to identify them. I get worried when I meet people who have violent imagery in their conversations for no reason. When a person is overly secretive and never talks about their work, I wonder why. From what I have read, have your guard up around people that have excessive charm and are immediately likable. While they may be perfectly good people, charm and likability are also weapons of dangerous people. These are characteristics that dangerous people work hard to cultivate and the rest of us usually don't have the time for.

The killer I knew, was scary. He was volatile and violent. It seemed like he could attack anyone at anytime. It was easy to detect him because he wanted everyone to be afraid of him. Some other dangerous guys also seem to want me to know how dangerous they are.

For a scammer I think detection is different (although the killer was also a scammer): I tried to learn the tricks of an apparently non-violent scammer by asking him to use his methods to try to scam me (I knew he was a scammer because he loved to tell about his scamming victories.)

He had so many tricks that I doubt I could ever learn enough to detect all of them in a real situation. It was good to know how he thought, but I concluded that we can not outwit a scammer who puts enough effort into finding our weak points, and then using them to scam or coerce us.

(Some dirty tricks are just too dirty to defend against. It's like avoiding an accident. Sometimes you can't. We have to hope for a certain amount of luck in life.)

However, I noticed that when he started pushing me to do something I would not normally do, my emotions went up and down in a way that was different than normal for me. He triggered feelings of greed, jealousy, etc. While I can't know all his tricks, I can be aware of when my emotions are changing in ways that are not normal for me.

etc etc etc
Jeez - you think too much!!

And you sound a little scary because of that......
Some people have very busy lives, fcuk all that palaver.
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Re: Westerners who are Psychopaths

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nuzen wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 8:30 am
siliconlife wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 8:02 am
nuzen wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 7:56 am
StroppyChops wrote: Tue Feb 12, 2019 7:44 pm
clutchcargo wrote: Sat Feb 09, 2019 7:54 am OP- what is your understanding of a 'psychopath'?

Coz googling the meaning of it gives a number of different interpretations/definitions ranging from mild to serious..
I'm wondering if the OP actually means sociopath.
No, I'm the OP, and I meant Psychopath, as in Expats who threaten me, wanting to kill me, or have me dead. In all my years before, I never met such naked evil intent.
There you go! Now that you've defined "psychopath", we actually know what this whole thread is all about!
Haha, yeah Ok. I see your point. Well done, siliconlife. I'm now wondering about that user name, "siliconlife". You're not from the Silicon Valley. Care to assuage my wondering?
I think this question is off-topic and would've been better sent in a PM, but sure: It comes from a love for science fiction, a curiosity about the universe, the great desire to meet an alien (if they exist), and because it sounds cool. It's a name I've been using online since I was a young teen. You're probably aware that carbon is the basis of all known life-forms. Scientists believe the reason for this is that it can form bonds with four different atoms at the same time, making it an extremely good "building block". Silicon shares the same ability to bond with other atoms and is one of the universe's most common elements, and so for a long time it has been speculated that silicon could be the basis for alien life - somewhere... out there... Basically the username is an expression of my interest in the possibility of life and the way it works (or could work).
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Re: Westerners who are Psychopaths

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nuzen wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 7:56 am
StroppyChops wrote: Tue Feb 12, 2019 7:44 pm
clutchcargo wrote: Sat Feb 09, 2019 7:54 am OP- what is your understanding of a 'psychopath'?

Coz googling the meaning of it gives a number of different interpretations/definitions ranging from mild to serious..
I'm wondering if the OP actually means sociopath.
No, I'm the OP, and I meant Psychopath, as in Expats who threaten me, wanting to kill me, or have me dead. In all my years before, I never met such naked evil intent.
... okay. And what's the common factor in those interactions?
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Re: Westerners who are Psychopaths

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Doc67 wrote: Sat Feb 09, 2019 9:57 am

Glib and superficial charm...Lack of remorse or guilt... Pathological lying...
Callousness and a lack of empathy... Parasitic lifestyle...Poor behavioural control... Sexual promiscuity...
Lack of long term goals and many short term relationships are just a few.

Sound like a few people we all know?

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