Psycopathy is not a pathology it is a privelege and a gift it is the American Dream

Firstly let me state there is no clinical psychiatric definition of psychopathy that is currently accepted as a clinical syndrome or disorder. There is such a test for Anti-social personality disorder. ASPD is not treated as a sufficient cause for an offender to be treated as Criminally Insane, or in Jurisdictions such as the UK it does provide grounds for hospitalisation it is rarely grounds in actuality since It is considered an incurable Disorder not an illness and so in many individual cases imprisonment bit at her Majesty's Pleasure remains the preferred option. In response to Con, I put it that there are no necessary and conditions for living the American dream. I deny claiming that psychopathy is a necessary condition for living the American dream. Like Con, I do hold that there are certain traits which disfavour living the American dream and traits which favour it. I do not claim anywhere that psychopath traits are necessary for living the American dream. That is Cons interpretation. But as we can agree that there are favourable and disfavorable traits for living the Dream interpretation I shall continue on that basis. You can live the dream through your own effort, you can live it just by luck or wealth inheritance, you can live it by pushing the law to and for some beyond its limits (ie Microsoft will pay fines rather than amend its business decision' and you can fail to prosper despite hard work, scrupulous honesty and talented entrepreneurship. To put my argument loosely I am claiming that the specific traits that distinguish a psychopath from the rest of violent ASBD criminal populations of which they form a part, may well be reflected in the population as a whole. And that people who share these 'Psychopathic traits' are enabled rather than disabled by them in many areas of life. Areas associated with the American Dream. I chose the term American Dream as it is a secular notion with roots in the American Constitution as opposed religiously based the Good life or the Joy of Amishness. Furthermore in the US it is considered as politically neutral. The right to enjoy, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The meaningfulness of the term psychopathic is grounded in part on the greater likelihood of recidivism among psychopathic inmates over those gaining While ASPD is treated as a clinical diagnosis, Psychopathy is not. Being used instead within forensic Psychiatry in profiling and in the decision of whether a person should be released from custodial sentences. Current research into Psychopathy is leaning towards the view that psychopathy may be attributed a clinical meaning. Hare's work is in part geared towards the development of a clinical diagnosis for a clinically identifiable syndrome, or disorder that generalises to the general population. Given that Psychopaths fall under the ASPD diagnosis it is natural to look at the differential traits of the psychopath within an ASPD group. Psychopathy can never function as a clinical term when it makes essential reference to external data in its findings. If the diagnosis is to be meaningful in psychiatric terms it should be on the basis of observed behaviours. Much has been made in pop-psychology of psychopathy tests. These tests make not direct appeal to criminal history. I claim that Con needs to show that the traits specific to psychopathy are either neutral or negative with regard to personal success in a free-market economy.