If this is true, then most people have had sociopathic tendencies throughout recorded history. I'm very leery of the implied use of the views of early 21st-century Western Europeans as the definition of sanity.
--- On Thu, 6/26/08, WD <mister.wd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Attitudes toward the death penalty are indicative of
> sociopathy in the
> same way that gratuitous cruelty to animals is.