Originally Posted by
Jayjami
There’s no shifting line. Sociopaths believe they are superior to others, so they don’t have to conform to society’s rules. They make horrible soldiers, because it is impossible to instill discipline in them.
Psychopaths lack empathy. While that is a good thing when facing the enemy, they are completely incapable of bonding with their comrades, an important component to military success. The Viking berserkers come to mind, but they are the exception.
sigh... look there was a study done where they provided sociopaths on the narcissist branch (iirc) and a 'normal' control group with doses of meth and watched for how their brains responded. basically the pleasure response centers in the brains of the sociopaths lit up like 10x brighter than the normies.
meaning:
sociopaths really cant say no to behavior that makes them feel good because the rewards they get are a magnitude greater than they should be.
- that has nothing to do with feeling superior, it has everything to do with other peoples well being meaning 10x less to them than it should.
- real honest to god narcissists, which is a sociopath spectrum branch, are consumed by self loathing, not superiority. and they usually fabricate circumstances to distract everyone from seeing them as how they see themselves, etc.
- very often, sociopaths will have people in their lives that are effectively immune from that sort of manipulation and are perceived in a healthy way in terms of empathy. sometimes that wears off, often it doesnt.
honestly your response kinda reads like your education comes from documentaries and books about serial killers, not boots on the ground psychological studies. im not trying to call you out or put you on blast, but its difficult to have a conversation about this when we seem to be comparing apples to oranges.