"The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity." - Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin
Given that the majority of so-called nutcases are harmless, it follows that possibly what turns a few of them into psychopaths are a real fear that so-called normal people will harm them.
For they were punished for their "wrong" speech by parents, by teachers, by the police.
Reacting out of fear, their tormenters physically abused them.
And now the abused lash out violently because of that abuse.
On the flip side, not all people become sociopaths because they had a mother or grandmother to provide compassion to soothe their wounds and their inner sorrow at being betrayed.
For this is the real way to treat sociopaths: with unconditional love.
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