Yep. Well, at least the perpetrator's mother is subject to adult penalties. I'd keep a very close eye on that boy for a long, long time. They may not be able to institutionalize him right now -- not sure how much proof they had that he did it -- but fire-setting is one symptom of a psychopath, as is maiming/torturing/murdering small animals . . . including human children.
Yeah, I was just thinking that it would be interesting to know for sure (not that the little punk would ever own up to it if he's a classic Sociopath) whether or not he had a history of harming animals.
I remember one time in the 101st I had moved in with a buddy of mine from 187th (which, oddly enough, is normally like mixing oil and fire- our two Regiments just don't get along especially in the absence of someone else to fight, but he and I in-processed to the Division together) and his wife. He came home one day and kicked this stray Cat his wife had "adopted" clear across the living-room and smack into the wall. At the time I wasn't nearly as sensitive as I am now, or much of an animal lover, nor did I have much of my current understanding of the world and human nature, and that still bothered me for some reason that both seemed ridiculous or silly at the time and that I couldn't quite put my finger on
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Yeah, I was just thinking that it would be interesting to know for sure (not that the little punk would ever own up to it if he's a classic Sociopath) whether or not he had a history of harming animals.
There's actually a test for it now that uses MRI scans of the brain. From as early as a month or two after birth, the brain of a true sociopath shows significant differences from that of someone who isn't a sociopath, differences that form an invariant signature of the problem. A true sociopath cannot form a conscience or love anyone -- a glitch in prenatal development of the nervous system prevents the formation in the brain of various sites necessary to social awareness and instincts. A psychopath, on the other hand, may have a conscience, but either represses it (malignant narcissism) or gets off on doing things that horrify it (what that is they don't have a name for, but there are people like that). Anyway, they can test for the first condition. There may be tests for the other.
I remember one time in the 101st I had moved
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Re: and [requested that she] limit who comes around himpolaris93February 26 2011, 19:06:13 UTC
I would, too -- though maybe she doesn't have enough money to make it worth it.
One thing that struck me about this was the call she made to the mother of the boy who was burned: "I got the phone call at 2:10 in the morning telling me there had been a minor incident," Smith told AOL News. "She said my son was OK and wanted to know if he could have ibuprofen." If I'd had a child in my care who'd been burned, I'd have called the child's parents and told them exactly what had happened, rather than that rather unsatisfactory bit
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If only the boy who did it was 10 years older.
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I remember one time in the 101st I had moved in with a buddy of mine from 187th (which, oddly enough, is normally like mixing oil and fire- our two Regiments just don't get along especially in the absence of someone else to fight, but he and I in-processed to the Division together) and his wife. He came home one day and kicked this stray Cat his wife had "adopted" clear across the living-room and smack into the wall. At the time I wasn't nearly as sensitive as I am now, or much of an animal lover, nor did I have much of my current understanding of the world and human nature, and that still bothered me for some reason that both seemed ridiculous or silly at the time and that I couldn't quite put my finger on ( ... )
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There's actually a test for it now that uses MRI scans of the brain. From as early as a month or two after birth, the brain of a true sociopath shows significant differences from that of someone who isn't a sociopath, differences that form an invariant signature of the problem. A true sociopath cannot form a conscience or love anyone -- a glitch in prenatal development of the nervous system prevents the formation in the brain of various sites necessary to social awareness and instincts. A psychopath, on the other hand, may have a conscience, but either represses it (malignant narcissism) or gets off on doing things that horrify it (what that is they don't have a name for, but there are people like that). Anyway, they can test for the first condition. There may be tests for the other.
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One thing that struck me about this was the call she made to the mother of the boy who was burned: "I got the phone call at 2:10 in the morning telling me there had been a minor incident," Smith told AOL News. "She said my son was OK and wanted to know if he could have ibuprofen." If I'd had a child in my care who'd been burned, I'd have called the child's parents and told them exactly what had happened, rather than that rather unsatisfactory bit ( ... )
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