Originally Posted by TheSquealer

I was using a sociopath as an example just because it has been stuck in my mind with the stuff i have been reading as of late. We are surrounded by both, both are capable of murder and both would feel no sincere remorse or guilt. Though most serial killers are psychopaths, most psychopaths are not killers or serial killers. Psychopaths in most ways tend to function a little better in society as they have a much stronger tendency to understand they are sick and different - due to the severity of the issues they have in terms of emotional deficiencies and the fact that they are often forced to confront them or at least cannot deny them. Sociopaths are the opposite. They are similarly sick and have a lot of the same emotional deficiencies but do not typically see it in themselves or view themselves as bad or sick as they tend to think quite highly of themselves. Much of the diagnostic criteria is overlapping... where psychopathy is a little more severe. I don't really know that a psychopath is more capable of mass murder or not, or if that's just the common stereotype. I think that if you feel no remorse or guilt, you are well on your way to being capable of anything and committing any act against others.