Re: Can you pass the psychopath test ??
This is quite odd because I don't really believe that one's decision to kill either five people or just one contributes to the fact of whether or not they are psychopathic. I don't get why one decision would make you a psychopath and another decision would not. I understand the 'science' behind what this man is trying to convey, but really... who gets to make that decision?
I realize it's not just the amount of people you kill, but the personal decision you make of how many people should die that's the key here. But man, really, I ask anyone who watches this video... COULD you make that decision?
As crazy (no pun intended) as this may sound, I think I'd just walk away from both situations. I don't think I have it in me to decide who lives or dies. So my rationale would be to walk away and let things happen as they were meant to happen thinking that a possible strange turn of events at the very last moment may prevent
anyone from dying.
Whatever the case, I wouldn't want
either outcome on my head. I may have just killed 5 death row inmates who have taken the lives of others but by flipping the switch and saving the 5, I may have just killed a woman pregnant with her 3rd child whose other children are at home waiting for her.
I wonder what the doc would say to that, if by walking away I'm psychopathic or not? Because I honestly believe that I could NOT make that decision. And I certainly couldn't deliberately push someone over the edge of a cliff, no matter what the situation. It's not up to me who lives or dies.
So I'd ask the doc - by making the decision to do nothing, what category does that put me in? Would be interesting to find out.