Hard to say. We'd probably get better national leaders, but we'd have a big shortage of surgeons so more people would die from medical problems requiring surgery.

Chesterton's fence.

I say this purely to foment thought, but think about it, has anyone identified why we even have psychopathy among us? And why many of them are so successful?

Until we do, we're being just as self-indulgent as they are when we get on our high horses with utterances like "psychopaths bad".

Ok, so why do we keep voting them in?

About the same. Many lawyers and doctors have dark-triad tendencies, which actually aid them. I mean, the original article is about the crippling emotional toll of what many would argue is a necessary evil.

put it this way, the vast majority of people have difficulty reasoning about emotional topics; I bet psychopaths have no limitation of the sort.

my question to you would be, what if we are in an equilibrium? Perhaps just enough psychopaths exist to “GSD“, but not enough to cause too many problems…