reply to post by ModernAcademia
I hate to make this suggestion, because it bodes ill for the lad, but is there any chance that he did it to see if he could? Theres more to
psychopathic behaviour than freaking out and blabbering nonsense, in fact classic psychopaths are utterly normal folks, who just so happen to have no
moral or ethical boundaries, or would cross them anyway if they did.
They are not angry , nor sad or depressed, nor are they technicaly suffering a real imbalance of the mind. They know right from wrong. They just dont
much care about the difference, and are just as likely to do one thing as another.
You see thats how psychopaths are different to persons who are mentaly unfit. In terms of thier psychological health, a psychopath can rarely be said
to be mentaly unstable. They are often calm at all times, even when elbow deep in a chest cavity, or throttling the life out of some poor unfortunate
soul. Its VERY hard to tell a psychopath apart from other people unless they are actualy involved in a serious act of depravity when you see them,
because apart from that action, they will seem utterly comfortable, at ease, in control. They bare all the marks of a healthy psychopathology and yet,
they are also utterly monsterous in thier capability to do great wrong, and be utterly at peace before during and after. They are as comfortable with
chaos as they are with peace, with great savagery as they are with tenderness, and although able to tell one from the other, are unlikely to let the
difference stop them once a course of action has impressed itself upon them. They are one of the most engigmatic subjects in all psychology, and I
would not be suprised to find that this child has some of that dark spoor within his mind.
