Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Sociopathy

I see that one of Mick Philpott's rivals for the title of most feckless father in Britain is also on a murder charge:

Jamie Cumming has 16 children by 14 women (which begs the obvious question of what the hell is wrong with those women?).

He may be innocent but just consider that the two most notorious baby-daddies in the UK are both currently being charged with murder- it does bear out the notion that having lots of children that you can't possibly support is a sociopathic trait and those who do it should be vilified and despised.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Having lots of children to get benefits surely shows a lack of caring what others think about you. So I guess you are right.

However if he had been born in Spain - a country less "progressive" with regards to career parenting - would he still have been a psycopath?

Did the benefits system make him worse?

A K Haart said...

"having lots of children that you can't possibly support is a sociopathic trait and those who do it should be vilified and despised."

Spot on.

James Higham said...

I've a post scheduled on just that - sociopathy. Lot of it about.

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What the welfare state and cultural relativism hath wrought....

MOA-A said...

which begs the obvious question of what the hell is wrong with those women?

Women find sociopathic traits attractive - seriously, google it.

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Did the benefits system make him worse?


Not sure if you are being serious. Is it not a neurological condition that may be triggered by early negative experience - i.e epigenetic?

Check out the "Warrior Gene".

In a 2009 criminal trial in the United States, an argument based on a combination of "warrior gene" and history of child abuse was successfully used to avoid a conviction of first-degree murder and the death penalty; however, the convicted murderer was sentenced to 32 years in jail.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-human-beast/201007/pity-the-poor-murderer-his-genes-made-him-do-it

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Ross said...

MOA-A

Sorry for the late reply, but interesting stuff.

Anonymous said...

"Did the benefits system make him worse?

Not sure if you are being serious. Is it not a neurological condition that may be triggered by early negative experience - i.e epigenetic?"
I was actually, if being slightly sociopathic means you get money surely that would make you more so?
After all has there even been a Sharon Matthews case in Spain?

In this case the state was being a bad parent to him by rewarded his selfish childish behaviour.

maximaxi said...

Philpott is definitely a sociopath, his behaviour is absolutely typical, manipulation, control of a willing victim in the form of his hapless wife, and some from of brutish charm, invisible to most normal people. You cannot blame his behaviour entirely upon the benefit system, he would still be a reckless, consciousless individual no matter where he lived,the benefit system has provided tools for him to revel in his feckless scrounging lifestyle, and in that have contributed and provided motivation for his evil deeds.