Rogan argues that psychopathy may have persisted in human populations because it served an adaptive function in ancestral tribal warfare. In a Viking-style raiding party, you actually want members who won't come back traumatized—people who can burn, pillage, and raid without developing PTSD or moral injury. On an individual level this is destructive, but at the tribe level it was a survival asset.
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