we are the only ones who are free.
Finally somebody who understands the true meaning of the American Dream and the real promise of Capitalism, freedom, just as he defines it!
But of course this is a typical argument. Psychopaths are free because they are not hampered by the obligation and limitations that empathy forces upon people. It forces you to think of others, not just yourself, clearly limiting your freedom to do everything you want.
Just for kicks I'll present an argument to consider. Those with empathy can choose to ignore their empathy (as many are) and act psychopathically anyway - empathy does not absolutely force you to obey it anymore than having sexual desire forces you to have sex. Those who have empathy can also choose to listen to the advice of their conscience - so they can go either way, they have a choice to be STO or STS. Psychopaths don't have that choice, they have no conscience and so are stuck only being psychopath, only with STS. So just realizing that and ignoring everything else it becomes obvious that psychopaths in fact have less freedom, less choice.
To slightly expand on this though, psychopaths are also stuck acting out of their desire. They cannot ever be free from self-centered desire. Because that is the only possible reason for them to do anything, other than pure programming that is. This actually means that they will never ever be satisfied. As long as desire exists, we are never happy, never content with what we have, we always want something more, and are always afraid to lose what we have. But eppathy, and by extension STO, provides the possibility of doing things out of something other than simply desire. This means that it provides the possibility of actually being happy because of NOT wanting "more and more", and NOT being afraid of losing anything. If you have nothing, you have nothing to lose. If you want nothing, then your happiness is not dependent on anything outside yourself, period. And one reason this is important is because being content with what IS as it is allows exactly that which this psychopath speaks of - freedom.
Only STO can build a civilization based on mutual harmony, and not a control hierarchy. STS is stuck with control hierarchies - the stronger/smarter always control weaker/dumber. So in fact, that is a major external reason that psychopaths and STS in general cannot have freedom. They are always subordinate as they are always in a hierarchy of control, because control is all that gives any reason or meaning to psychopaths and STS in general - aka, the aforementioned desire.
