"Before, your argument was that sociopathy didn't have firm diagnostic criteria."
- Not only does it NOT have firm diagnostic criteria, it's not even a diagnosis. Your frantic attempts to hastily conflate Antisocial Personality Disorder with "sociopathy" haven't shown anything to be incorrect... except your reasoning.
"Before, your argument was that sociopathy didn't have firm diagnostic criteria."
- Not only does it NOT have firm diagnostic criteria, it's not even a diagnosis. Your frantic attempts to hastily conflate Antisocial Personality Disorder with "sociopathy" haven't shown anything to be incorrect... except your reasoning.
"It's obvious, you don't like it"
- I don't like nonsense and make-believe twaddle. I'm surprised anyone does. I'm surprised that you do.
"and throw out rationales so vague as to be unfalsifiable."
- There's nothing vague about my claim that even the contemporary pseudo-scientific term "Antisocial Personality Disorder" is meaningless waffle with no firm diagnostic criteria. Even a cursory glance at the DSM's criteria reveals them to be arbitrary (arbitrary age ranges, arbitrary and vague descriptions of behavior, the classic "pick any three of these random and vague descriptors to complete your diagnosis" facebook-quiz level psychiatric mummery).
If you were dispassionate and logical this would be apparent to you. But then if you were so, you wouldn't have typed out your very first post on this matter, would you.
"twaddle" means "twaddle". Meaningless nonsense, unconnected with reality. Which is both an apt description of the tomfoolery surrounding both the amateur pseudo-diagnoses of "sociopath" beloved of randoms like you on the internet... and also an apt description of the professional pseudo-diagnoses of "antisocial personality disorder" beloved of under-educated and over-qualified professional bead-rattlers from the less illustrious side of the psychiatric profession, for the reasons elucidated in the immediately preceding post.
If you could point to an "inexact use of words" on my part, you would have done it long ago. On the other hand, there's little in your posts EXCEPT inexact uses of words...
well, there are also *inexact words*, but why quibble?
"Before, your argument was that sociopathy didn't have firm diagnostic criteria."
- Not only does it NOT have firm diagnostic criteria, it's not even a diagnosis. Your frantic attempts to hastily conflate Antisocial Personality Disorder with "sociopathy" haven't shown anything to be incorrect... except your reasoning.
"It's obvious, you don't like it"
- I don't like nonsense and make-believe twaddle. I'm surprised anyone does. I'm surprised that you do.
"and throw out rationales so vague as to be unfalsifiable."
- There's nothing vague about my claim that even the contemporary pseudo-scientific term "Antisocial Personality Disorder" is meaningless waffle with no firm diagnostic criteria. Even a cursory glance at the DSM's criteria reveals them to be arbitrary (arbitrary age ranges, arbitrary and vague descriptions of behavior, the classic "pick any three of these random and vague descriptors to complete your diagnosis" facebook-quiz level psychiatric mummery).
If you were dispassionate and logical this would be apparent to you. But then if you were so, you wouldn't have typed out your very first post on this matter, would you.
Apparently "twaddle" and "dispassionate and rational" just means "agrees with Al".
"twaddle" means "twaddle". Meaningless nonsense, unconnected with reality. Which is both an apt description of the tomfoolery surrounding both the amateur pseudo-diagnoses of "sociopath" beloved of randoms like you on the internet... and also an apt description of the professional pseudo-diagnoses of "antisocial personality disorder" beloved of under-educated and over-qualified professional bead-rattlers from the less illustrious side of the psychiatric profession, for the reasons elucidated in the immediately preceding post.
So inexact use of words is bad, except when you do it.
If you could point to an "inexact use of words" on my part, you would have done it long ago. On the other hand, there's little in your posts EXCEPT inexact uses of words...
well, there are also *inexact words*, but why quibble?
Oh, start with the word "twaddle". Like arguing with members of the objectivist cult.
>the objectivist cult
Perhaps not incidentally, a popular hangout for sociopaths.
Of course. Objectivism IS basically a rationalization based around sociopathy, with some happy horseshit around "honor" thrown in to look less grim.