the.com/sociopath
Knows exactly what's right and wrong, just doesn't see why that's their problem.
means Someone with a persistent pattern of disregarding or violating others' rights, lacking empathy or remorse, while fully understanding social and moral rules — they just don't feel bound by them.
from Built from Latin 'socius' (companion, ally — the root of 'society') plus Greek 'pathos' (suffering, feeling). Coined in the early 20th century by psychologists looking for an alternative to 'psychopath,' shifting the blame from an individual's broken psyche toward a broken relationship with society — the word itself argues about where the damage really lives.
- clinical term
- actually called antisocial personality disorder
- vs psychopath
- more impulsive, less calculating, still no remorse
- origin story
- often shaped by environment, not just wiring
- charm factor
- many are likable, that's the dangerous part