What would you do if you knew your young child is a psychopath?

Akrasia · 27-08-2011 05:54PM #1

Psychopaths are people who are born without the capacity for empathy. They are extremely likely to grow up and commit some horrendous crimes. There is no cure. most psychopaths spend their lives in jail or a mental institution or are loose in society causing devastation to innocent people around them. If you were the parent of a 8 year old who you discovered was secretly torturing animals and displaying all the symptoms of being a psychopath, what would you do?

Crann na Beatha · 27-08-2011 05:55PM

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4zn76tysfajdxp · 27-08-2011 05:55PM

Difficult to tell. Children are generally lacking in empathy anyway. Selfish little bastards.

maiden · 27-08-2011 05:55PM

Turn them into a dexter style person!

orourkeda · 27-08-2011 05:56PM

Akrasia wrote: »

Psychopaths are people who are born without the capacity for empathy. They are extremely likely to grow up and commit some horrendous crimes. There is no cure. most psychopaths spend their lives in jail or a mental institution or are loose in society causing devastation to innocent people around them. If you were the parent of a 8 year old who you discovered was secretly torturing animals and displaying all the symptoms of being a psychopath, what would you do?

Set him on my mother in law

TiGeR KiNgS · 27-08-2011 05:56PM

Encourage them to kill only those that got off the justice system.
Worked for Dexter.

Son Of A Vidic · 27-08-2011 05:57PM

I'd probably flip.

El Guapo! · 27-08-2011 05:57PM

Train him to be a mercenary and send him off doing all cool Jason Bourne shít

Big Nasty · 27-08-2011 05:58PM

Give him Nurofen! :pac:

looky loo · 27-08-2011 05:58PM

Send him/her to an Irish school run by priests/nuns, they are great at torturing 8yr olds.

Diageio_Man · 27-08-2011 05:58PM

lock them in the attic and feed them fish heads its the only responsable thing to do.

hinault · 27-08-2011 05:58PM

Akrasia wrote: »

If you were the parent of a 8 year old who you discovered was secretly torturing animals and displaying all the symptoms of being a psychopath, what would you do?

I'd explain to the kid that torturing animal is wrong and that if they do it again, I'd flog them.

If I caught them doing it again, I'd flog them.

Pain is an excellent way of altering kids behaviour.

AG2R · 27-08-2011 05:59PM

Make sure I don't piss them off

RinkyDinkSlink · 27-08-2011 05:59PM

I've wondered about this myself many times. I'd like to think that I could 'train' them into appropriate behaviours. Failing that, I'd have them locked up and throw away the key.

AnonoBoy · 27-08-2011 05:59PM

I'm currently training a child to be a psychopath. He's not mine. I just found him in the backseat of a Volvo in the Ikea carpark.

Wolfe Tone · 27-08-2011 06:01PM

chokeslam

The Scientician · 27-08-2011 06:03PM

Love them all the more.

WalterMitty · 27-08-2011 06:12PM

they are literrally unable to experience empathy or guilt. Saw an episode of Law and Order SVU based on a real case of a boy mudering his infant neighbour . Killed child's father was a psychiatrist and knew the guy couldnt be cured so shot him in courthouse. They should be locked up for life or made wear a gps unit with camera necklace so everything they do can be monitored. They will adapt behaviour only if threatened with probable encarceration .

amacachi · 27-08-2011 06:14PM

WalterMitty wrote: »

they are literrally unable to experience empathy or guilt. Saw an episode of Law and Order SVU based on a real case of a boy mudering his infant neighbour . Killed child's father was a psychiatrist and knew the guy couldnt be cured so shot him in courthouse. They should be locked up for life or made wear a gps unit with camera necklace so everything they do can be monitored. They will adapt behaviour only if threatened with probable encarceration .

Got a link to the real case? :pac:

pragmatic1 · 27-08-2011 06:15PM

This is what abortion is for.

RinkyDinkSlink · 27-08-2011 06:16PM

WalterMitty wrote: »

they are literrally unable to experience empathy or guilt. Saw an episode of Law and Order SVU based on a real case of a boy mudering his infant neighbour . Killed child's father was a psychiatrist and knew the guy couldnt be cured so shot him in courthouse. They should be locked up for life or made wear a gps unit with camera necklace so everything they do can be monitored. They will adapt behaviour only if threatened with probable encarceration .

Saw this, one of my favourite episodes and the reason we were discussing this very subject lately. That little dude was truly fubar, very well played by the young actor!

biko · 27-08-2011 06:19PM

I don't know, I've no feelings on the matter.

WindSock · 27-08-2011 06:21PM

pragmatic1 wrote: »

This is what abortion is for.

You mean to tell me we aborted the wrong one? Damn you! Damn you all to hell!

Pherekydes · 27-08-2011 06:24PM

Train him to be an Irish rugby player.

flutterflye · 27-08-2011 06:27PM

My son has asd.
He lacks empathy.
He only apologises or does the 'right thing' if he knows that he will be punished otherwise - so it is purely selfish.
He doesn't care if he hurts someone.
He doesn't care about anything but himself.
What do I do about it?
Try to teach him empathy of course, and hope for the best!

Bowlardo · 27-08-2011 06:28PM

flutterflye wrote: »

My son has asd.!

what is ASD?

flutterflye · 27-08-2011 06:29PM

Bowlardo wrote: »

what is ASD?

Autism spectrum disorder.

CorkMan · 27-08-2011 06:38PM

I'd bolt him/her up against the wall in the basement.

Bipolar Joe · 27-08-2011 06:49PM

You can't really compare ASD and being a psychopath or sociopath.

And I would totally try and make them into an anti-hero, like Christian Slater in Heathers.

AnonoBoy · 27-08-2011 06:50PM

CorkMan wrote: »

I'd bolt him/her up against the wall in the basement.

That's playing right into their hands. That's what they want you to do. Then when they get loose, revenge will be all the more sweet.

Don't be a fool man. Send them to school as normal and then when they go on a rampage make millions from the 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' style memoirs you can write.

Ditch · 27-08-2011 06:58PM

Pack him off to be educated at Columbine

What would you do if you knew your young child is a psychopath?

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