On 6/1/11 10:04 AM, Gadi Evron wrote: > On 6/1/11 7:02 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> (Which makes sense, really - prisons are for people who refuse to >> follow rules, and that's one of the big criteria for sociopathy). >> >> So when we say "spammers should be in jail", that's basically labeling >> them as sociopaths that need removing from society. > > In Criminology the term "sociopath" isn't used, the term "psychopath" > is. To say Spammers which may be anywhere on the scale of "misguided" to > "soulless criminal" are actually psychopaths is nothing but empty > demagogy. So while it may be easy to use precise terminology - we should > avoid it when we don't understand it. These things have definitions. > > Not every anti-social behaviour can be defined as an extreme one (read: > personality disorder - still hate that term). The simplification on > Wikipedia for this term is very poor indeed. > > This needs to be clearly defined by the DSM or ICD, and even then it's gray.
One more thing, in order for the behaviour to be extreme enough to be considered even "just" a personality disorder, it needs to be pervasive. Meaning - in every walk of life. Toward the cashier at the store, their family and their boss. Not limited to one part of their lives. Such pervasiveness and extreme bahviour is not something which is easily seen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder Gadi. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
