Would a psychopath care if suicide was the "easy way out"?

I would think not. I myself in the past struggled with suicidal thoughts and met this guy who said he was sociopath/psychopath but thought suicide was cowardly.

I myself don't really care either way but I do find his beliefs incongruous. Doesn't caring about taking a simple/weak/way suggest someone cares about social norms? After all, suicide from a non emotional standpoint is an answer to problems. It may hurt and inconvenience others (usually considered selfish) but it makes perfect sense for the person. No point in struggling.

What do you think?

dude.. just, no

why would one want to kill the most important person in their own little world

what even is suffering, in your opinion. like give me a scenario where you think a psychopath would want to kill its self. like waking up every day knowing you're going to get beaten to near death by robots who can't be swayed by yor charm and enslave you so you have no contact with anyone? then yeah maybe suicide would be an option.

I’m not sure, I personally can picture a scenario where the psychopath has so royally fuked their lives up that there is not much else of an option. That or go on a killing spree, which I suppose is more likely.

Look at Eric Harris one of the Columbine shooters. FBI profilers and criminal psychologists diagnosed him as a classic psychopath based on interviews with friends and family and his diary/manifesto. His plan was to have the biggest massacre in history and kill himself which he failed at the first but was successful in the later.

ClairePurdue wrote:I would think not. I myself in the past struggled with suicidal thoughts and met this guy who said he was sociopath/psychopath but thought suicide was cowardly.

I myself don't really care either way but I do find his beliefs incongruous. Doesn't caring about taking a simple/weak/way suggest someone cares about social norms? After all, suicide from a non emotional standpoint is an answer to problems. It may hurt and inconvenience others (usually considered selfish) but it makes perfect sense for the person. No point in struggling.

What do you think?

You say there's no point in struggling, but it's our struggles that teach us our greatest lessons and give us the strength we need to survive. We live in a world that can be cold and cruel at times. That's the harsh reality of the human condition.

How is ending your life the answer to your problems? Unless you have an incurable illness, suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. It doesn't make much sense in the long-term.

Personally, I couldn't give a shlt if you or anyone else does kill themselves. If you're too weak to handle whatever issues you're dealing with, then suicide might just be the answer. After all, suicide has it's benefits - it weeds out the weak from the strong.

On the flipside, suicide is a form of control. When everything else is gone it's the last form of control that we have left and who else should decide whether we live or die but ourselves.

I assume other sociopaths and psychopaths view it the same way I do. How suicide is viewed is based on the circumstances surrounding it. Just because someone doesn't give a shlt if you die doesn't mean they don't have an opinion on it.

Reaper wrote:Just because someone doesn't give a shlt if you die doesn't mean they don't have an opinion on it.

what do you mean

saucygirl31 wrote:

Reaper wrote:Just because someone doesn't give a shlt if you die doesn't mean they don't have an opinion on it.

what do you mean

Do you think ? Voila you got an opinion, the simple fact that somebody say he doesnt care that you die is enought to be an opinion, just read between the line and you'll see what they think..

Perhaps it depends on the psychopath in question. There's been cases of psychopaths killing themselves.

IDK.

But then I'm not a psychopath.

Dr Harold Shipman a serial killer and possible psychopath killed himself in prison.

You can speculate that he took the easy way out if you like.

Brandon1 wrote:Perhaps it depends on the psychopath in question. There's been cases of psychopaths killing themselves.

Isreal Keyes. There was no way he was going to stay locked up.