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Peterson explains that psychopathy can be considered 'contagious' in a social sense, as grouping individuals with antisocial proclivities together, like in the prison system, makes them worse.
A significant failure of the prison system is putting antisocial people with other antisocial people, turning them into 'antisocial experts' who compete and reinforce negative behaviors.
Putting psychopaths in group therapy makes them worse because they become more effective at manipulation and getting what they want from others, treating people as mere 'landscapes of opportunity'.
Peterson notes that psychopathy is very difficult to change from around age four onward. Society can inadvertently teach people to be more criminal and psychopathic through its handling of them.