Well, you are dealing with someone who has no conscience and no ability to empathize with others. Sociopaths can be as mild as being simply selfish and narcissistic, to being serial killers. Essentially, a sociopath with take, take, take, and even hurt you, and have no remorse for doing so. Reciprocating kindness is not a concept they comprehend. With very little exception, there is no effective treatment or cure for this disorder.
Yes they do. However, that doesn't mean that what they find funny most other people would find funny. Also, they would use humour to manipulate others rather than trying to entertain others for the other person's pleasure.
Yes.
Not necessarily; they are not the same thing.
Not at all
Because dictators are sociopaths, and therefore masters of manipulating emotional people into blind faith.
In my experience, sociopaths use religion to manipulate others.
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it depends on the sociopath is trying to do. But if it comes to it, yes they do.
No, they aren't. A paraplegic is someone who is paralyzed, and a sociopath is someone who has no empathy for others. The two are completely different.
No, in fact, it's the opposite. There are many more straight sociopaths than gay ones.
Many sociopaths are plain sadistic.The broader notion that most sadists and masochists 'switch' betweem the one and the other is problematical.Added (DF-04/09) - (speculative)From a physical perspective (as against emotional sadism and masochism) Many sociopaths are sadistic. Many sociopaths are also masochistic. This is not necessarily a case of switching between the two, but just another aspect and stems from a different perspective. Whereas sadism may stem from amusement at hurting others and a sense of power and control, many sociopaths describe a feeling of emptiness or even something described as "sociopathic pain". Sociopaths may then enage in masochism as "pain to kill pain." Of course, not all sadomasochists are sociopaths!
Sociopaths might find other sociopaths interesting, but would soon fall become bored and frustrated. Sociopaths like easy prey to manipulate, as they like to feel everything is below them. So sociopaths might actually try to avoid other sociopaths.
Yes. Sociopaths lack empathy, not the ability to feel sorrow.
i think that it is called apathy also, people who do not have feelings are called sociopaths (Thats when they dont have feelings, so they kill others)
Sociopaths generally are not concerned with the feelings or safety of others. They may be more likely to express deviant desires, but there's no evidence that they are more likely to have them.
Well, there are people called sociopaths, who basically manipulate people and hurt them -- mentally, physically, financially, any way they can -- and feel no empathy for the people they victimize, and have no guilt about what they do. Basically, a sociopath is someone who has no conscience. But some might argue that the need to love and be loved is inherently human, and that even incredibly sick, damaged people like sociopaths have an inner core of humanity that can't be eradicated. They might not have enough humanity to make them good people, and it might be impossible to ever rehabilitate them into good people, but the touch of humanity is still there.
No