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[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's only because people don't really like being murdered that...

No it's also, and more importantly, because people don't like murdering

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If not for people’s negative feelings toward being murdered, I would only take <1% of people enjoying murdering for it to be an extinction-level problem.

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Such an incredibly small number of people want to murder that, even though it would only take <1% of people to get rid of the whole population, we are nowhere near that.

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I’m genuinely curious what that number would be if we removed any stigma from admitting to it. I’m having trouble finding reliable numbers for sociopathy, but my unreliable memory from reading The Sociopath Nextdoor was 5% of the population are sociopaths, and I don’t think it’s unreasonable that 20% of those would have people they’d kill if there were no consequences for doing so.