I was talking about the dictionary definitions.
sociopath - a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
psychopathy - a mental disorder in which an individual manifests amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
psychopathic personality - 1) an antisocial personality characterized by the failure to develop any sense of moral responsibility and the capability of performing violent or antisocial acts
2) a personality disorder characterized by amorality and lack of affect; capable of violent acts without guilt feelings ('psychopathic personality' was once widely used but was superseded by 'sociopathic personality' to indicate the social aspects of the disorder, but now 'antisocial personality disorder' is the preferred term)
[_]antisocial
[x]capable of violent acts without feeling guilt
[_]criminal
[x]lack of a sense of moral responsibility
[x]lack of social conscience
[x]amoral
[_]lack of ability to love
[_]lack of ability to establish meaningful personal relationships
[x]extreme egocentricity
[_]failure to learn from experience
It just doesn't fit. It's about a 50/50 hit-and-miss. I mean sure, I may exhibit some sociopathic personality traits but I most certainly lack others. That's why I don't like some big blanket term like that which automatically groups someone into all the categories even if only some are true.
