M.E. Thomas: Yeah, I, I voted once. I voted once and it was in the 2008 elections, and it was for Bob Barr I guess was the, the libertarian candidate.
Rob Kall: Okay. And, what are your thoughts on you having children?
M.E. Thomas: Yeah, I don't know about that. On the one hand I think that, and this is something that I've sort of thought, I think that I actually do have some insight into children with conduct problems, conduct disorder. That it, I would be able to help them in a lot of ways. I understand more what they need, I think, than the average person. So, I do think if I, if I had a child, and the child was a sociopath that I might be almost uniquely qualified to raise a sociopathic child. I would know what they need, I would know what is particularly harmful for them, in terms of their development.
But then if I had an, a child that was not a sociopath, that's I just, I just don't know what would happen. I wouldn't obviously be able to empathize with them. And, so they would probably be bilingual, you know. Be able to communicate with me on an largely unemotional level, and then be with their friends and maybe other relatives, extended family members, and be able to learn also what its like to communicate on the emotional level.
I have no idea what it would look like. But it does sort of worry me. And I, I do wonder, you know, is it better to sort of wish, if I were to have children, that they would be a sociopath? Because then I know that I would be, more uniquely qualified to be their parent. Or is it better to wish that they were not a sociopath, because it seems like sort of a weird thing to wish on a child that they grow up a sociopath. I have felt largely fine with being a sociopath, but the older I get the more I acknowledge in what ways I am limited by the disorder, particularly with relationships. But also professionally to a certain extent.
And I just think, you know love, love is not a big deal to me, but love is a big deal to everybody else basically. People talk about their romantic love as being their world, you know. Which I think is really an expansive way to describe something. And if somebody, if love is the world for some people, and it's not at all, or hardly at all in my world, then I think that that is, sort of objectively a poor existence.
So it would be sad, in a way to wish that any child would be a sociopath.
Rob Kall: Okay, now there's been a decent amount of research on attachment, and attachment disorder. Are you familiar with that work?
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