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Phineas Gage! The man that survived a horrific brain injury and subsequently taught us what's wrong with psychopaths!

submitted by GeneralDisarray to Mildlyinteresting 3.4 yearsDec 25, 2021 16:54:09 ago (+17/-0)     (en.m.wikipedia.org)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

The damage he sustained to his frontal left lobe was catastrophic.

It changed his personality to that of a psychopath. But he did heal from this eventually. Proving that moral injury to the brain is much more permanent than physical injury.

This is the brain scan of a psychopath. Someone that has destroyed their conscience, resulting in physical brain damage.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/48/a1/f8/48a1f87d968976061547d2dfbd0332fe.jpg

Gage in 1848 led us to ask if different parts of the brain had different functions. Something that has now been proven.

For a few years he displayed the childish, violent, easily bored, selfish shameless and inconsiderate attitues that psychopaths all learn to hide and excuse away.

The part of his brain that considered how his behaviour affected those around him had been disabled by physical trauma rather than the more common cause of initiations into the occult.


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[ - ] TheSimulacra 2 points 3.4 yearsDec 25, 2021 17:34:47 ago (+2/-0)

I read an interesting study a few years ago that was suggesting 5-10% of the population is sociopathic/psychopathic.

We spend enormous sums of money on diseases that affect 2% or less, yet this problem gets almost no attention.

Gee I wonder who’s in charge!

[ - ] GeneralDisarray [op] 0 points 3.4 yearsDec 25, 2021 21:00:54 ago (+0/-0)

Remember what John Lennon said before he was murdered!

"The world is run by maniacal people for maniacal purposes"!

They couldn't let someone with this level of influence speak the cold hard truth. So they killed him.

He was just too accurate. He could have woken everyone up to the truth back then.

[ - ] deleted 0 points 3.4 yearsDec 26, 2021 01:11:23 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] ToNigIsToNog 0 points 3.4 yearsDec 26, 2021 02:25:25 ago (+0/-0)

did he say that before or after praising communism?

[ - ] ToNigIsToNog 0 points 3.4 yearsDec 26, 2021 02:26:08 ago (+0/-0)

while ted talks are largely bullshit, the one on "interesting answers to the psychopath test" or similar phrasing is worth a watch.

[ - ] thebearfromstartrack4 -1 points 3.4 yearsDec 25, 2021 17:49:19 ago (+0/-1)

This is so boring I want to cry.

[ - ] PostWallHelena 0 points 3.4 yearsDec 25, 2021 18:35:12 ago (+1/-1)

Now you know how we feel reading those comments of yours.

[ - ] PostWallHelena -2 points 3.4 yearsDec 25, 2021 18:49:40 ago (+0/-2)

As I have said before, psychopathy isn’t a disease. Its not a specific medical diagnosis. Its like calling someone evil.

Lots of people have behaviors that are unusually selfish, manipulative, sadistic, or otherwise opportunistic.

Some people are like this because they had a spike through their head.. Others are like this because of genetics. Some groups develop survival strategies that are very opportunistic. Its not an illness. It often leads to success. Black populations have very violent societies that survived for 100,000 years.

Some psychopaths will have abnormal brain scans. Others won’t. The Clintons and George Soros will not have abnormal brain scans. Those findings about brain scans were from studies on prison populations.

We’d probably understand this problem better if we asked ourselves why everybody isn’t a psychopath, and then try to answer why some groups evolved to be less psychopathic over time while others did not. Our nearest relatives, chimps and gorillas, act like psychopaths all the time. Why did we change?

[ - ] Unjaded 1 point 3.4 yearsDec 25, 2021 23:17:58 ago (+1/-0)

Some people ARE evil. Actions define us. What else would you call people who take pleasure in performing abortions, then selling the parts to the highest bidder? It's evil refined and concentrated.

[ - ] PostWallHelena 0 points 3.4 yearsDec 26, 2021 00:01:23 ago (+0/-0)

You have to ask yourself what evil really is. Most christians feel it is an immutable thing — God decided what was good and evil and thats that. Maybe we have to categorize behavior this way in order to function as a society and not go crazy. But there is wide disagreement on what is good or evil. There are lots of places where they kill babies all the time and its no big deal. Primitive tribes in New Guinea kill their babies all the time. They murder each other with regularity. Its just normal behavior for them. They survived for 60,000 years acting like that. If you asked them why they killed their baby they might say “it was a wizard” or “ I have too many babies already” or “ I wanted to have sex and the baby was a distraction”. Im not fucking kidding.

If you go back far enough, all of us have ancestors like that. People who moved into colder climates seem to have developed new behaviors and attitudes about killing wantonly. It didn’t happen universally. It seems that higher levels of cooperation and empathy among our ancestors led to reproductive success in cold climates. So did things like dads providing for their children. Thats not universal either. We developed a lot of conservative behaviors that allowed us to have high levels of cooperativity. They are implemented through our genes and our moral culture.

It seems that jews are trying to roll back that moral culture and pander to the opportunistic instincts that we all still have to some degree. I suppose they acquire wealth from people by appealing to their basest urges.

Our morals are based on whats good for our tribes— hard work, not being a slut and not killing babies. Not being a slut is what makes it possible for our people to have greater caring for babies. Rules lead to prosperity.

Jews morals are based on what’s good for their tribe— undermining morals so they can make money off abortions, or drugs, or usury, or porn. When the host society’s morals deteriorate it seems to be good for jews economically. I think thats why they always push degeneracy.

[ - ] big_fat_dangus 1 point 3.4 yearsDec 25, 2021 22:58:36 ago (+1/-0)

[ - ] PostWallHelena 0 points 3.4 yearsDec 25, 2021 23:06:15 ago (+0/-0)

How does that article discount anything I said? There was nothing new to me in that article and I don’t disagree with it. Why do you think it contradicts my comment?

[ - ] big_fat_dangus 0 points 3.4 yearsDec 26, 2021 11:53:40 ago (+0/-0)

Give it a read, you'll figure it out. Maybe.

[ - ] PostWallHelena 0 points 3.4 yearsDec 26, 2021 14:47:11 ago (+0/-0)

I did. You can’t articulate why because you don’t know.

[ - ] big_fat_dangus 0 points 3.4 yearsDec 26, 2021 14:50:05 ago (+0/-0)

If you didn't figure it out after reading that article, you're a lost cause. Which isn't surprising, really.

[ - ] PostWallHelena 0 points 3.4 yearsDec 26, 2021 14:57:25 ago (+0/-0)

If you cant articulate than you obviously surrender and Ive won .

[ - ] big_fat_dangus 0 points 3.4 yearsDec 26, 2021 15:16:12 ago (+0/-0)

The article provides the answer to the question you asked at the end of your post. Which is something very basic that anyone who's taken any evolutionary biology knows, btw.