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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThese 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.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Amazed that there are people still defending him.
It's funny in a way.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)He is truly a product of our celebrity absorbed culture.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)He was built into a hero and he still is in his own deluded mind.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)It really explained a lot about this man's mindset.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,439 posts)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.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)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)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)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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