Psycopaths

It is my belief that psychopathy will be a less bewildering problem when we can more accurately describe and measure subtle emotional interactions in the earliest human experiences, and correlate them with measurable deficiencies in the capacities for trust, empathy and affection later in life. I don't know what proportion of the population of a prison is psychopathic - partial or complete, mild or severe. Obviously the percentage depends on the diagnostic criteria used and …

…changes that appear to tamper with our present values. But mostly we just know that such proposed solutions to crime prevention are "naively idealistic." From my perspective the naive idealism is in the minds of those who believe that we will survive as a species without soon taking action to prevent future generations of those who, as Cleckley says, are so bleached of emotion that they are "invincibly ignorant of what life means to others."