Witches and Psychopaths

Some people might think that by comparing early modern civilization witch hunts to contemporary psychopath hysteria I am ignoring the fact that witches were not real and psychopaths are. But even though witches are known today to be fictitious figments of societies imagination in general, in history witches were as real as rain to most people, even the educated elite. Of course there were plenty of people then who realized the insanity of believing in witches, just as there are plenty of people today (respected proffesionals) who assert the insanity of believing in psychopaths. And then, as today, witches (in lieu of psychopaths) were catalogued and defined in the most respected and official publications. One of the most influential treatises on how to identify and prosecute witches was the Hammer of Witches (Malleus Maleficarum). In it the authors asserted: „Who is so stupid that he would affirm on that account that all their bewitchments (i. e. injuries) and magically inspired harms are fantastic and imaginary when the contrary is apparent to everybody's senses?” In other words, if everyone believes in witches, then there must in fact be witches. This is exactly the same logic we use to support social belief in psychopaths, even though no scientific study has ever been able to define such a class of people.
It is also interesting to note that witches were identified and classified according to the witches themselves, under torture or threat of torture. And so the analysis of psychopath (or „antisocial personality disorder”) is today acheived once more primarily on self reporting by the alleged psychopath, under confinement or threat of confinement.
Supposedly, a psychopath is a person who lacks the ability to form deep emotional bonds, and thus is emotionally not human, and hense okay to dehumanize. (Never mind that the so-called sociopath himself uses the same mental trick to justify dehumanizing his victims as well!) Psychologists claim to objectively identify this disorder according to behavior observations. Basically the behaviors they use to identify them is any behavior considered „anti-social”. This is exactly the kind of behavior that was used to identify and condemn witches!
I'm not saying there is no such thing as people who hurt other people with callous disregard. Every living human is guilty of this to all extremes. As Americans we consume a grossly disproportionate amount of the worlds resources, for mere pleasure not necessity, while children starve to death by the thousands every day! And it has been demonstrated repeatedly that we depend on the vulnerability of the countries where children are starving in order to satisfy our pleasures. Yet we allow this? It is socially acceptable callousness, so it is not „anti-social”, just as Christian rituals were socially accepted forms of superstition that were therefore not maleficium (witchcraft).
It's all the same thing, and it still prevents us now from learning and advancing to a better world because we place all the blame for our problems on an arbitrarily defined class of people instead of taking responsibilityfor and addressing those problems directly.
This was a hard lesson learned for me as I once blamed society for all my problems (who in turn blamed people like me – psychopaths – for all of their problems). But then one day, by watching how a young child delt with very serious problems of her own, I saw that blaming anyone was pointless and only made things worse. That little girl showed me the folly of the blame game in a way I never thought possible. She herself took all responsibility for all the terrible things I was doing to her. I realize now that children (and unconditioned people in general) will instinctively take responsibility, not place blame. Placing blame is something we must learn to do. Unfortunately in our society we teach our children literally from infancy to place blame on others. For some reason the little girl I intended to blame for all my problems did not blame me. So how could I blame her?
We tell rape victims, „It's not your fault” because they instinctively want to take the responsibility. Unfortunately, responsibility turns to self blame, which is another pointless and self destructive lie. We should tell them instead, „This is what you can do to stop it from happening ever again!” (And there is always a way to stop rape from happening – which I know from personal experience after being raped several times in prison, until I learned to stop it from happening. If someone had told me how to not be raped in the first place I never would have been, but instead I was told I would get raped no matter what I did – the same kind of lie the authorities like to tell people and themselves in order to justify their authority!)
I could go on and on about how the blame game (even blaming yourself) only makes things worse. I am after a fashion an expert at placing blame. But I don't blame society any more, or my mother, or father, or older sisters, or teachers, or even the men who raped me in prison. In nature there is no blame. Blame is one of the many purely human inventions we foolishly turn to again and again because of the quick relief from suffering it deceptively promises. And so we create witches and psychopaths just to have someone to blame. Terrorists, sex offenders, gang bangers... jews, niggers... witches. How long until we take responsibility for who and what we are? How long until we stop allowing children to starve in other countries, and get raped in our own country? How long until we stop blaming someone else and start taking responsibility for what happens to us?
P.S.: The logic behind executing witches was that a dead witch couldn't hurt anyone anymore. Sound familiar?