That was awesome. So while reading your posts, I also ran across a documentary about serial killers. In that, they used Hare as a reference to who was a psychopath, which on is face doesn't seem bad, however it was used in a way that struck me like, they think of his work like others think of the Bible. I was disturbed by this.
Now maybe he has a handle on dangerous criminals and their behavior, but, how can he find that a psychopath has very limited emotions on the one hand and then deem someone with rage as a psychopath? They asses people who have a need for companionship as a reason why they abduct and then kill, as psycopaths. Yet a psychopath has no empathy, This makes no sense to me.
So I kinda compared what you wrote to this documentary, and the Hare test questions should rule out people with
empathy. I it seems very contradictory to me. I'm just a layman, and I can see obvious flaws. I don't understand why well educated people don't see them.
Also I got your point about the money he makes too, maybe his intent was to just do his work to begin with and when the money started rolling in he got greedy. I mean it seems to me, like he was trying to find out about psycopathy but had the idea that it was the reason for the worst criminal behavior out there, so that opinion jaded his work from the start. Or maybe he was trying to prove what he already thought. So, that would definitely not make for objective research. No wonder people think that psycopathy equals evil.
Your right that this needs to change, it's so bias it's not even a little funny.
When I first read Hare’s complaint about Ronson’s wrong description of his appearance, the color of his eyes, in particular ,and correction of it, I wasn’t sure if he wasn’t being sarcastic. Turned out he wasn’t, good lord, in his big age. The man to me is an embodiment of cringe.
Fantastic price of writing. I’m glad you validate Ronson, his book is what got me on this train. As I read more and more of your work, the more I agree with you about the state of this field of medicine. a radical change needs to come about I just don’t see how that will happen, not in our lifetime anyway.
That was awesome. So while reading your posts, I also ran across a documentary about serial killers. In that, they used Hare as a reference to who was a psychopath, which on is face doesn't seem bad, however it was used in a way that struck me like, they think of his work like others think of the Bible. I was disturbed by this.
Now maybe he has a handle on dangerous criminals and their behavior, but, how can he find that a psychopath has very limited emotions on the one hand and then deem someone with rage as a psychopath? They asses people who have a need for companionship as a reason why they abduct and then kill, as psycopaths. Yet a psychopath has no empathy, This makes no sense to me.
So I kinda compared what you wrote to this documentary, and the Hare test questions should rule out people with
empathy. I it seems very contradictory to me. I'm just a layman, and I can see obvious flaws. I don't understand why well educated people don't see them.
Also I got your point about the money he makes too, maybe his intent was to just do his work to begin with and when the money started rolling in he got greedy. I mean it seems to me, like he was trying to find out about psycopathy but had the idea that it was the reason for the worst criminal behavior out there, so that opinion jaded his work from the start. Or maybe he was trying to prove what he already thought. So, that would definitely not make for objective research. No wonder people think that psycopathy equals evil.
Your right that this needs to change, it's so bias it's not even a little funny.
Great post.
When I first read Hare’s complaint about Ronson’s wrong description of his appearance, the color of his eyes, in particular ,and correction of it, I wasn’t sure if he wasn’t being sarcastic. Turned out he wasn’t, good lord, in his big age. The man to me is an embodiment of cringe.
No offense Athena but I'm kind of hoping that Hare comes after you. I get the feeling that he's not used to people pushing back.
Fantastic price of writing. I’m glad you validate Ronson, his book is what got me on this train. As I read more and more of your work, the more I agree with you about the state of this field of medicine. a radical change needs to come about I just don’t see how that will happen, not in our lifetime anyway.