[blackwhitered]

I mean, why can't it just be another way of thinking? Behaving, etc.?

Why do people have to have their value measured based on how well they conform to society?

Impulsivity could be interpreted as a "carpe diem" or "YOLO" lifestyle, which a lot of normal people are okay with in moderation.

A lot of the other symptoms aren't that bad if you look at it from an existentialist POV.

I think society and academia demonizes what it doesn't understand. We should just let people like their lives, not label people as "psychopaths" because they have a different philosophy.

I don't think APD is objectively wrong. I don't think ANYTHING is objectively wrong.

[ocdwifeofsociopath]

I have great admiration for some aspects of ASPD. I don't think it's the disorder itself that's "wrong" per say. Rather, the actions that are immoral, unethical, and illegal that are done directly related to the manner of thinking involved with it. That can be said, in my opinion, for any person regardless of how they think, what's wrong with them, or anything else. I fully believe that even though people with ASPD have no regrets and it's difficult to prove why they shouldn't do certain things , that just because they "can" and might or would, does not mean they should. I think the largest negative connotation with ASPD is that this idea is not followed in many aspects. Which of course they could care less. I also think it's the idea that they don't care, regardless, that makes it as you are saying "wrong". Most people are content to let other people live their lives as long as that is what they are doing and not actively being involved, especially negatively, in other peoples lives. Be it stealing from them, to physically hurting them, to just being mean through words. Again, it's not the way they think, but what they do.

People believe what is "right" is what is right for them. If there are people out there that might cause them harm just by their nature, they're inclined to stigmatize it. It's survival instinct.

Of course, I would also be the first to say that they can go shove it! But yanno. People are entitled to their own opinions... Or whatever.

[Mattmx]

If you look at the statistics of it sociopaths can often be very successful. I wouldn't want to be any other way. Lots of business CEO's and high pay high stress jobs are strong suits for an antisocial PD person.