Empathy in a human being is something that has to be constantly worked on, built on and developed. The key period of this is obviously childhood, but it’s a lifelong thing.
Empathy exists in all humans, even ones generally considered evil, such as Hitler, Stalin or the murderer in this case, but empathy gaps, or an underformed concept of empathy within a person, can have terrible consequences.
Empathy is like the engineering of a bridge. If there are enough underlying weaknesses in the whole, catastrophe can occur.
It’s everywhere man and the online age has made it so much easier for the cunts, we see these people everyday be it in the local shop or pub and it’s only when the stories come to light do we kind of step back and say you know i’m not really surprised!
Evidence from both identical twin studies and modern brain scanning techniques demonstrate conclusively that there is a genetic component to psychopathy, their brains are just wired differently. What defines psychopathy is lack of empathy and conscience which can be complete in the most serious cases. Nurture or the environment the psychopath was reared in is probably the major factor in how bad they turn out or what evils they carry out.
The fascinating thing is it is likely the traits of the psychopath (fearlessness and no remorse for killing) that ensured human survival during a certain stages of our evolution, and these traits were selected out as humans developed social structures. They haven’t gone away fully, estimates are between 2 - 5% of humans are psychopaths. These are very evil people and capable of literally anything to satisfy their cravings. Fundamentally they believe they are superior and see no problem with inflicting the most horrible suffering on others if it satisfies their desires. To say we are all capable of this behavior is simply wrong.
The evidence is that psychopaths lack emotional concepts like empathy or remorse, completely lack in many cases. They have no idea what these concepts mean, let alone feel them. Their “choice” which is hard wired is to satisfy their lust, which is what makes them so fucking scary.
Yes, but they have zero understanding of why something is legal or not as they have no concept of right and wrong. They see other humans as prey, it’s no more complicated than that.
Although there’s a lot of overlap, the key distinction between a sociopath and a psychopath is whether they show any evidence of a conscience. A psychopath simply doesn’t have a conscience, although they might pretend to. A sociopath typically has a conscience, and knows what they are doing is “wrong” but go ahead and do it anyway. The latter would describe a lot of not just CEOs but politicians, attorneys, etc.
