It Just Irks Me

[guardians_song]

“Psychopathy is probably the most pleasant-feeling of all the mental disorders,” says the journalist Jon Ronson, whose book, The Psychopath Test, explored the concept of psychopathy and the mental health industry in general. “All of the things that keep you good, morally good, are painful things: guilt, remorse, empathy.”
(source)

Well, no, actually. There's the joy of accomplishment, the self-esteem benefit of knowingly doing good, the happiness of causing improvement (of oneself, others, or the world)...

STOP GLAMORIZING PSYCHOPATHY AND UNDERCUTTING VIRTUE.

The fear of punishment alone won't make you good. All it will make you is neutral. Goodness actually takes work and motivation. A lump of stone has committed no evil. It has committed no good either.

PEOPLE DON'T JUST DO GOOD AND AVOID EVIL BECAUSE OF "PAINFUL THINGS'. WHAT THE FUCK.

Comments

[redwoodalchan]

It's particularly ridiculous when you consider that many (not to say all) people who display those sorts of personality traits display them because they have a history of abuse or something else like it. People who do really terrible things are not usually particularly happy people.

[guardians_song]

Yep.

But I suppose it's edgier to claim that evil=happiness or something. because a lot of opinion columnists sound like teenagers in thirtysomething bodies, especially when they complain about how dumb all the other kids are and how things were so much better when they were younger