There is magic and wonder and awesome-ness (my kid's word) all around us, every day. Just because you've broken down the process doesn't make it any less magical, etc. I can recall sitting in a class for certification as a Hearing Conservationist (occupational health) and we went into minute depth about how the ear developed and then worked. I remember thinking, "this is a truly amazing thing! THIS proves a Creative Intelligence!" and I, knowing this feeling of awe would not last, noted it for the precious moment that it was. Science IS the magic.
Oh, and having dealt with at least three bona-fide antisocial personalities I feel confident in saying that they do exsist. I don't express myself very well, I am usually tongue-tied, esp. on this board because I don't like to confront and argue and I (to my complete undoing) go with my gut far, far too often--but! My gut has served me well--it knows things that I don't. Having said that--I have worked in some pretty horrid circumstances with some pretty horrid people. In my experience not every human is "good". I've seen the BPD, the antisocials, the devious and evil. And not just in passing, but up close, every day for hours and hours. I've been spit at, punched, kicked, taken hostage, etc., all the fun things a psych nurse goes through in the regular course of a day for about three years. I came away from that experience with the very real feeling that there are antisocial (or, whatever the diagnosis is now) people and there is evil.
Just my experience.
*mentally ill does not equal evil or antisocial, lest the more aggressively stick-poke of you want to debate. There is a clear difference between a personality disorder and a mental illness, though it is very often that there is both in one person. Personality disorders can usually be overcome with time and experience (Like BPD--and UNlike antisocial) and mental illness is just that --an illness of the mind. Antisocial is an illness of something I can't quite put my finger on but I suspect it's both bio and spirit-based. {if you dispute that premis, recall that ALL addicts are asked to surrender themselves SPIRITUALLY to find respite from their affliction and if they balk, they are labled 'unwilling' to change!}
And by that I mean that I've never found a chapter of Sober Witches or Pagan's Fighting Alcoholism in Ohio anywhere. 'course, I do live in (the sorta) Bible Belt. I don't blame you personally for this.
