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andrewstuart2 on Oct 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what oth...

I guess what I'm trying to point out is that psychopathy, genius, and eccentricity have the same semantic roots. They all indicate some offset from an average.

calroc on Oct 30, 2014 [–]

But psychopathy is a kind of divorce from reality; while it seems that the genius is somehow closer to reality than the normal person?

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