• Chozo@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    It’s not my belief – just look at the raw data and what psychologists say. We don’t know everything, obviously, but we know quite enough.

    What psychologists say that we know enough? I’ve never heard this claimed by a professional in the field before.

    e: I’m not talking about what psychologists can learn, I’m talking about us, the public.

    It’s not up to the public to learn the intricacies of psychopathy. You and I aren’t the ones who need or can make use of that data.

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      8 months ago

      It looks like I worded my comment poorly.

      I meant we, as in regular people, not psychologists or the FBI, or other professionals.

      We already know more than enough to enact laws and policies to fix this shit. We don’t need more data. These aren’t lone wolves, and they haven’t been for ages. They have very similar beliefs. We know the who, what, and why they do these things, and we have for a long time.

      We don’t need to ponder these things anymore.

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        8 months ago

        And yet, warning signs are still ignored by most people, and travesties like this continue to occur almost daily in this country.

        I’d argue that we don’t know as much as we’d like to think we do.