Why The Middle Ages Were A Paradise For Psychopaths

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• MD

  @MDVL_mindset · 2 months ago · pinned

  Which society is more vulnerable to psychopaths: medieval society or ours?

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• MA

  @marlllleena · 1 month ago (edited)

  being a religious schizophrenic during this time must have felt sooo good

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• AZ

  @AZ-Kelly · 2 months ago

  I believe that many "monsters", especially werewolves, are based on psychopaths and unexplained deaths.

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• AU

  @AutumnGuiFei · 1 month ago

  Imagine all of the weirdos online today but without a place to vent their fucked up desires. Like those people have always existed

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• ED

  @edog101 · 2 months ago

  This may be one of the reasons Grimm's fairy tales were so dark. They were not scaring the crap out of little kids with stranger danger stories for no reason.

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• MO

  @Moaritsu · 2 months ago

  Chilling to think of all the things people have gotten away with throughout history, and we'll never know about it

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• AR

  @ArgueWithTheMajority · 1 month ago

  Would suck if we still lived in a system that rewards and breeds psychopaths & sociopaths...

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• DO

  @DODOORIGIN · 2 months ago

  Medieval Europe relied entirely on <b>Trust Me Bro</b> for identity verification. Thomas de Marle was basically running a medieval mafia syndicate in 12th-century France and calling it knighthood.

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• DQ

  @DQuinn00 · 2 months ago

  It makes total sense that people like Peter Thiel want to drag us back to a feudal society.

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• PU

  @puppetguy8726 · 1 month ago

  In history much crime was &quot;solved&quot; by forcing people into false confessions

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• D3

  @D3rT3st · 2 months ago

  This also kind of explains why guilt and fear of god was so important and enforced by authorities

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• MU

  @muticere · 2 months ago

  It was probably way harder to get away with crime inside your own community since everyone knew everyone else, but for sure once you travel somewhere else, all bets were off. But I&apos;m glad you pointed out that the real danger was from the noble class. Sadly, leaders and the powerful doing basically whatever they want and getting away with it isn&apos;t a problem we&apos;ve managed to fix even today.

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