Do psychopaths need to be cured?
If a cure for psychopathy is available, should people be forcibly subjected to it?
Not all psychopaths are violent. A lot of high functioning psychopaths are business executives, politicians, surgeons as well as successful soldiers and policemen. All activities that require lack of empathy and calmness under pressure.
https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/influence-psychiatric-symptoms-decisional-capacity-treatment-refusal/2017-05
One imagines they’d have to be EXTREMELY handicapped not to have capacity for deciding whether or not to cut out various pieces of their brain (surgically or chemically) or their personality.
Yes