Are the majority of sociopaths committing really heinous crimes?
No. Most sociopaths are not violent and probably never will be. They are the people we see every day: The boss who likes to ridicule people. The seduce-and-abandon lover who does this mainly for fun. The person who marries for money or prestige and no apparent other reason. These people aren’t necessarily serial killers, but they cause a lot of harm. So how do you know if your boss is a sociopath or just a jerk? If you have a jerk boss who’s lazy and always wants you to do things at the last minute, or asks for unreasonable things like making coffee, that’s not necessarily sociopathy. If you have a boss who likes to ridicule people and make them jump and seems to get a kick out if it, that’s more likely to be sociopathy. It’s motivation. So how do you spot a sociopath? This is very unscientific, but small children seem to be better than adults at being afraid of people who are not warm, people who have damaged interpersonal emotion abilities. There is an instinct in all of us to know w
