[1MoreThing]

> Psychopathy is a condition characterized by the absence of empathy and the blunting of other affective states. Callousness, detachment, and a lack of empathy...

That doesn't seem like a personal attack so much as pointing out that this belief lacks empathy and is callous, which I tend to agree with. The standard argument, which I'm sure you're aware of, is that some controls and regulations on the ownership of firearms is a net good for society by reducing accidental deaths, suicides, and murders.

Guns aren't responsible for any of those things, people are. But guns dramatically change the scale at which they happen. Ignoring that because of a belief in absolute freedom from regulation for machines designed to kill is callous and un-empathic. Or, to use a synonym, psychopathic.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/psychopathy

[nickthemagicman]

So the millions of men who sacrificed their own lives to defend this principle of liberty psychopaths?

Being principled and having higher ideals is not callous. It's the most noble thing a person can do.

The fact that people view it this way is very bad sign for how selfish and callous Americans have become.

[dragonwriter]

> Being principled and having higher ideals is not callous. It's the most noble thing a person can do.

Having ideals is exactly noble, or ignoble, as the ideals. There is nothing noble about devotion to ideas independent of the ideas one is devoted to.

“A world free of Jews” is an ideal people have been devoted to. People who were more devoted to that idea and willing to sacrifice more for it are not more noble than those less devoted by reason of their devotion.

[nickthemagicman]

That's a straw man. At the macro level causes may be unjust sure.

But at the micro or individual level...sacrificing onesself for higher ideals/principles is the least psychopathic thing one can do ..one makes the ultimate sacrifice for what they believe is the betterment of OTHERS.

People may be misguided and some causes unjust, but they sacrificed themself for an ideal that they believe in.

It's the opposite of psychopathy.

Everything that you are and have is due to the sacrifices of many millions of people for principles they believed in. It's a shame modern society has become so ungrateful,materialistic, and distant from what so many people have sacrificed so much for.