Not bad some flaws and some good ideas. Commentary follows.
First I need to laugh at the psychopath admirer. Needs to know himself better. He could do all those things. All the psychopaths he describes do not need imagination or even manners. Doctors can be complete bastards and still be successful performance oriented surgeons, and so can judges and lawyers, and still be rewarded handsomely. But SHOULD they be allowed? Society relies on the doctor and judge to exercise SOLE good moral judgement. They can do lots of harm before they are finally caught and stopped. He needs to question the society he chooses to be part of that pushes him to be successful at that high a cost.
At 9:05 Mark Dadds points out psychopathy is genetic. “More genetic?” ASPD stage may not be genetic, but psychopathy is! This is where wants/abilities/limits conscience model can really help. The limitation was there at birth, but the behavior can be quite different. This is both the psychopaths other genetics (intelligence,aptitudes,etc) and the nurture part of their upbringing. I expect they will be similar to other children at a very young age. You can’t change their behavior without brutalizing them, instead change their whole context. A variation on shunning. Impose an external conscience to shape the logical mind. So it does seem like he’s on the right track.
Of course there is always some moral danger labeling children. Children enter world as effective psychopaths, then start picking up components of empathy. Don’t want to mix up psychopathic kids with slow emotional learners. Where psychopaths need logical structure, empathic children need room to make the (hopefully minor) mistakes that help their metamind grow.
Dadds mentioned training psychopaths to be better manipulator, calling it “Folklore.” I would say at least ‘serious risk’ is called for here. It’s hard fact psychopaths get worse with conventional therapy (and no other remediation.) They struggle with trying to talk to a different species, us. They soak up the information about the conventional psychological maps offered up to them. Premeditated abuse will vary, but they have a legitimate need to know how we work. At first just to survive as a slave. The big risk coming when they decide they are master.
It is mentioned they are reward driven. This is an important point and the only system recognized by the master/slave model. If they can’t step out of the pattern only choice is a rewards trap.
I am glad they pointed out a few misconceptions. Psychopaths are not always violent, in fact they usually aren’t. Kudos for defending the autism spectrum. People suffering from Aspergers syndrome might seem cold at a glance, but they are not emotionally deficient. They have a conscience, they simply have trouble expressing or receiving emotion.
Love to hear more detail on the Amygdala theory out there. I’ll dig around.
Thanks for the video. Keep them coming!