psychopaths like ted bundy who was by all accounts *very* intelligent and was studying to be a lawyer become serial killers because the thing that makes them tick is murder, sadism, and psychosexual gratification as well as the thrill of getting away with it. but not all psychopaths are like that. most never murder and it just isn't their thing - though they are likely terrible people in other ways. but there can be "good" people who are psychopaths as well - an interesting case might be made for the author of sociopathworld.com, who claims to be a psychopath who manages to function and control herself through the use of the moral teachings of the religion she grew up with. she's quite intelligent and has touched on a lot of research and many theories, and seems to be giving us a unique insight into the mind of a (diagnosed, afaik) psychopath, and a "functional" one at that. another interesting and ironic example you can find on youtube would be the neuroscientist studying psychopathy who found out he was a psychopath, kek. (picrel) what made him tick was his curiosity and science, and his family life. he was happily married and with children. he was doing brain scans on people who were in jail for serious crimes and who had diagnosed psychopathy and looking for neurological patterns that matched in all of them. after noting the specific pattern they all shared, he asked his family to take scans (can't remember exactly why, maybe it was just for fun or to show someone the difference). they all had normal scans but they asked him to take one - when he did, it turned out he had the exact same aberrations as the prisoners he was studying and was "technically" a psychopath. a functional one. (edit: i later learned he is jewish)
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