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Originally Posted by Martian
People will conclude that if they have high self-esteem.
...if they're batshit psycho. Being a sociopath is a mental disorder. Just as a depressive can't be cured by 'thinking happy thoughts', a sociopath would've been a sociopath whether or not they received mroe beatings as a child.
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I strongly disagree. Most of the relevant scientific community (meaning not natural sciences) would disagree as well. The "number of beatings received as a child", or simply the upbringing of a person has an enormous impact on who they become.
And as far as depressives not being cured by "thinking happy thoughts", well maybe not that exact oversimplification, but therapy is significantly more effective in treating most conditions than drugs are. And therapy, even though it is facilitated by another, is equivalent to "thinking happy thoughts."
*Note: I didn't say "self confidence" I said "self-esteem". Esteem being worth or value, confidence being faith in one's abilities. Now, obviously with our conceptual framework, we attribute a certain amount of value to other people in general. At the same time, we assign a level of value to ourselves (self-esteem); what do you suppose happens when the value assigned to ourselves vastly surpasses that assigned to others? <- aimed both at Martian and Tecoyah