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Yeah, uh ... the entire description of this trope is a ridiculous exaggeration of a term that isn\'t psychologically valid in the first place. \
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Yeah, uh ... the entire description of this trope is a ridiculous exaggeration of a term that isn\\\'t psychologically valid in the first place. \\\"Sociopath\\\" is a word thrown around to justify a character being Eeeeeeeeeevil without having to give them any definition.
There are two kinds of people that are referred to as \\\"sociopaths.\\\"
The first kind are just ordinary people who don\\\'t feel empathy -- specifically, they don\\\'t feel \\\"affective empathy.\\\" Most people just kind of \\\"know\\\" how the people around them are feeling and sometimes get contagious emotional reactions. People without affective empathy don\\\'t. So they learn coping strategies and improve their \\\'\\\'cognitive\\\'\\\' empathy (i.e., they study someone\\\'s face, they listen carefully to what\\\'s being said and read between the lines, etc.) They\\\'re not evil, just sometimes InnocentlyInsensitive.
The other kind are people with antisocial personality disorder. They don\\\'t have a lack of empathy or morals or anything; what they lack is the capacity for \\\'\\\'remorse\\\'\\\'. As such, yeah, some of them can do pretty callous things, but if you were to ask them directly they\\\'d say things like \\\"It\\\'s a tough world out there\\\" and \\\"Nobody ever gave me a break\\\" and \\\"Handouts just make people weak.\\\"
Whether that qualifies as evil is a matter of opinion, but this trope is taking a Hollywood FreudianExcuse (\\\"they act evil because they\\\'re crazy, a specific kind of crazy that makes them perfectly normal in every way except for being evil\\\") and describing it as though it\\\'s RealLife. Which it is not. At all.
There are two kinds of people that are referred to as \\\"sociopaths.\\\"
The first kind are just ordinary people who don\\\'t feel empathy -- specifically, they don\\\'t feel \\\"affective empathy.\\\" Most people just kind of \\\"know\\\" how the people around them are feeling and sometimes get contagious emotional reactions. People without affective empathy don\\\'t. So they learn coping strategies and improve their \\\'\\\'cognitive\\\'\\\' empathy (i.e., they study someone\\\'s face, they listen carefully to what\\\'s being said and read between the lines, etc.) They\\\'re not evil, just sometimes InnocentlyInsensitive.
The other kind are people with antisocial personality disorder. They don\\\'t have a lack of empathy or morals or anything; what they lack is the capacity for \\\'\\\'remorse\\\'\\\'. As such, yeah, some of them can do pretty callous things, but if you were to ask them directly they\\\'d say things like \\\"It\\\'s a tough world out there\\\" and \\\"Nobody ever gave me a break\\\" and \\\"Handouts just make people weak.\\\"
Whether that qualifies as evil is a matter of opinion, but this trope is taking a Hollywood FreudianExcuse (\\\"they act evil because they\\\'re crazy, a specific kind of crazy that makes them perfectly normal in every way except for being evil\\\") and describing it as though it\\\'s RealLife. Which it is not. At all.
