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Default Aug 07, 2019 at 01:46 AM
 
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Originally Posted by divine1966 View Post
I don’t understand how you can be a psychopath and have all these interests in other people and their personal information. I am certainly not a psychopath but I have no interest in most people I encounter. I wish them well but they don’t interest me. Only few do. So I am not getting it. I guess on a deep level I don’t understand your issue.
What do you think a psychopath is? Because what you seem to be describing is more like Schizoid PD, where the disordered person has a complete disinterest in other people.

I'll ignore myself for a moment since the jury's still out. The literature on psychopaths describes them as being very outgoing and involved in numerous social activities. One of the criteria is a need for stimulation, and a lot of the more exciting activities, particularly competitive activities, involve interacting with other people. Another characteristic is duping delight, and you can't get duping delight without a dupe. Even if we're only considering the practical use of others' personal information, you could easily use it for extortion purposes.

There are a lot of reasons a psychopath could be interested in another person. Their problem isn't that they're uninterested in other people; it's that they prioritize their own amusement above the other person's feelings or boundaries, and what they consider "amusing" would be considered "gaslighting" by most people.
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