Sociopaths

[Martin Hash]

Often when people describe sociopaths, they use the term “don't care,” as in "a sociopath doesn't care." Care about what? A sociopath is simply someone who makes a logical calculation of the benefit of their action versus the social penalty. A successful sociopath does not "care" whether they are shunned, scorned, or shamed, or any other kind of social ostracization, and consider people who do as fools & dupes.

However, sociopathy is completely different from psychopathy, which is of a corporeal nature. Through some kind of maldevelopment or injury, the part of the brain that empathizes with the plights of others no longer operates, such that the psychopath is unaware of the injury they inflict on others, or in the extreme case, their pleasure centers are triggered instead, motivating the psychopath to more heinous crimes.