• angrystego@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    That’s not what she does. Being a bad person or even being a psychopath is not considered a mental illness.

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      14 hours ago

      In a certain sense you’re right; psychop*th is Greek for “suffering soul”. It’s supposed to just refer to the abstract idea of mental illness. But in practice, it’s a slur against ASPD. And even if that weren’t the case, using the Greek word for mentally ill person as an insult is disgusting behaviour.

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        13 hours ago

        I’m talking about psychology, not history. Sociopathy is not considered an illness.