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Originally Posted by graciegirl
All THREE of them? Not statistically likely.
I say if you want to see something awful just look at the tape of those kids beating the hell out of another kid on the school bus recently while the driver stood by.
It was the first time I had witnessed such a beating. The power and vengeance and hatred. The pummeling and the kicking and the sheer strength by those young men. They could have killed the victim, any one of them with their bare hands and feet in shoes. THAT WAS horrible to me and very eye opening. A human brain can't survive that kind of repeated pummeling.
It makes me think of another beating recently in the news.
Nothing is simple. Nothing.
I will think again before using the old phrase beat the hell out of....Nothing like that ever occurred in my world.
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Psychopaths/sociopaths are diagnosed by their purposeless and irrational antisocial behavior, lack of conscience, and emotional vacuity. They are thrill seekers, literally fearless. Punishment rarely works, because they are impulsive by nature and fearless of the consequences. Incapable of having meaningful relationships, they view others as fodder for manipulation and exploitation. According to one psychological surveying tool (DSM IIIR) between 3-5% of men are sociopaths; less than 1% of female population are sociopaths.
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I was linking the article in the hope people would actually read it. There could have been a leader in this group who is a sociopath and the others just went along.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/s...k/psych_6.html
This was very telling in factors that lead to the possible development of a sociopath--
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The following are environmental factors, psychiatrists say, which create a sociopath:
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Studies show that 60% of psychopathic individuals had lost a parent;
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Child is deprived of love or nurturing; parents are detached or absent;
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Inconsistent discipline: if father is stern and mother is soft, child learns to hate authority and manipulate mother;
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Hypocritical parents who privately belittle the child while publicly presenting the image of a "happy family".
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