Prevention

A few years ago, quietly and on the margins of media reporting - the results of several medical studies were published that are potentially some of the most important discoveries ever. Although the research is still in its early stages, the implications of the possible early detection of psychopathy - which occurs in a small percentage of the population - would be incredible. How many future politicians, turbo-capitalists, bureaucrats, religious leaders, serious criminals, serial killers and similar individuals would be prevented in time from their criminal campaign if it was known that they were psychopaths from a young age?

Of course, for the relevance of a presumed sociological analysis of the impact of psychopathy on the wider community, the brains of a representative number of samples of the above-mentioned individuals would have to be scanned. For example, the government of a certain country or the board of directors of a corporation. Which will never happen, because naturally, psychopaths would not agree to be scanned...but there's a start. And maybe the cause, a genetic trait or whatever, would be found that causes the birth of people partially or completely deprived of the ability to empathize. And eventually, that could be treated.

The possibilities of protecting humanity from the actions of psychopaths should have priority.A ban on holding public office would be a first step for people who would be identified as psychopaths. Increased monitoring and control of their activities would also be an excellent move. Ultimately, they could line up in front of a wall and shoot each other. Otherwise, millions of people will suffer, and millions more will live in hell through the ``imported'' sociopathy which, besides psychopathy, seems to be the most significant characteristic that allows climbing the social ladder.

All this is just the well-known old dilemma exploited in some movies where a character goes back to 1889 to kill baby Adolf, changing history for the better... only in light of the aforementioned discoveries, the time machine becomes obsolete (there's a pun there, somewhere) and instead a scanner with the ability to map the brain via magnetic resonance comes into play. Placing an RFID chip in the body of discovered psychopaths and tracking them throughout their lives would be of great benefit.

Of course, the possibility of error can never be completely ruled out. But with the development of technology and possible prevention - an opportunity opens up for salvation, for survival, for a greater quality of life for billions of people and a drastic reduction in the problems facing the world today.

Ethical implications? Is stigmatizing a small percentage of children as psychopaths problematic?

Maybe. But those children will grow up into monsters who will rob, kill, rape, preach, massacre and lie and gaslight from their pulpits in various parliaments...

(Roger Mortis, 103)