I never really met a psychopath myself but I always wonder if they are really that dangerous as portraied in movies and TV-shows.
If not can you please explain me why in simple words as I don’t understand much about this topic?
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I once read an interesting piece that psychopathic traits were generally favoured in many upper echelons of companies and can be considered leadership abilities by some in business and politics. The ability to lay off large amounts of people without guilt if it provides business benefit, strategically enact environmentally damaging legislation for personal gain, etc. That seems quite dangerous to me.
As a point, movies will rarely portray serious unusual conditions, especially mental health conditions, in any realistic manner. I mean, you know of plenty of movies with characters with “schizophrenia” (psychosis: delusions, hallucinations) but it affects 1 in 100 people and only 1 in 100 of them have levels of paranoia to the point of being dangerous. Most are usually just scared all the time. You may have seen movies with “split personality” but most people will dissociative conditions only have the one fragmented personality, and even those few who do have DID, well, their situation is far more mundane and boring (even if the trauma that often leads to such conditions is not) and never fun.
However, none of that plays well on the screen. People want to see interesting and gripping characters like Hannibal Lecter. Not someone in the HR department firing someone and then going home and watching TV without a care in the world.
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