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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,704 posts)
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 01:56 PM Jul 2017

These OJ hearings serve a purpose. They show how unalterable personality is.

Sociopathy can be graded on a scale. Not all sociopaths become murderers, but all sociopaths lack empathy and display a glaring disregard for norms. Kind of like POTUS.


The people that thought a septuagenarian can change are the same people that thought becoming POTUS would make a septuagenarian change.

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These OJ hearings serve a purpose. They show how unalterable personality is. (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2017 OP
K and r. cwydro Jul 2017 #1
The Academy Award winning documentary, "O.J.-Made In America" captures his essence. DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2017 #3
I agree. cwydro Jul 2017 #4
Did you see it ? It was a stellar piece of work, especially the epilogue. DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2017 #6
I did, but I need to see it again. cwydro Jul 2017 #7
It was amazing how unglued he became in the end. DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2017 #8
Personality usually just becomes hardened, more defended, and more rigid over time. lindysalsagal Jul 2017 #2
Our personalities are largely formed by kindergarten. DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2017 #5
Change is possible, but jberryhill Jul 2017 #9
A lot of high brow people criticize the people who follow this saga. DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2017 #10
Personality is part genetic and partly formed from early experience. defacto7 Jul 2017 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author drmeow Jul 2017 #12

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,704 posts)
3. The Academy Award winning documentary, "O.J.-Made In America" captures his essence.
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 02:02 PM
Jul 2017

He is truly a product of our celebrity absorbed culture.

lindysalsagal

(20,439 posts)
2. Personality usually just becomes hardened, more defended, and more rigid over time.
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 02:01 PM
Jul 2017

It's a function of human adaptability and survival. Our current justice system doesn nothing to address the psychological realities of human conditions that lead to criminality.

Same thing with drug abuse. We know so much more about people and recovery than we did when our justice system was created. We need it to be overhauled by medical experts. Same with healthcare. The wrong uninformed people are in charge.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
9. Change is possible, but
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 02:15 PM
Jul 2017

It requires a lot of effort and a will to do it.

While a lot of people can work on behavioral and modeling strategies which then become internalized, the problem with a lot of personality disorders is that they pull hard in the other direction. The subject never really wants to change.

I chuckle at how courts "sentence" people to behavioral therapy, as if being told to do so against your will is any sort of workable proposal.

If you had delusions of grandeur, why in hell would you want that taken away from you?

I'm aware of my own delusions, but I enjoy them.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,704 posts)
10. A lot of high brow people criticize the people who follow this saga.
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 02:18 PM
Jul 2017

O.J. is an interesting character. One of the victims of the Vegas caper said he knows O.J. for twenty seven years and he's a great guy. I can believe he evokes such emotions. O.J. seems like an affable fellow, as long as you knew your place in his entourage.

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
11. Personality is part genetic and partly formed from early experience.
Thu Jul 20, 2017, 02:30 PM
Jul 2017

It's pretty much set after adolescence. The origin of the psychopathic personality which some still coin as sociopathic, originate in early brain development and seems to be genetically predisposed. The actions of a person with that disorder usually depend on environment except in the extreme. A psychopath can still make choices that are perfectly reasonable following socially acceptable norms but it's a choice not intuitive.

Contrary to popular belief people do change throughout life and pretty dramatically at times too, but the base personality is still intact. It's the choices they make and openness to change that rotate around personality.

All that to say, don't blame OJ for personality disorders. It's not the disorder... it's the choices he's made that make him what he is.

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