You are misrepresenting my thesis. Did you really read my post as, &quot;sociopath is not a word&quot;? If you did, I would encourage you to ask an adult to read the post for you and explain it to you. &quot;The term sociopath is used by the public at large and is pretty much always used as a way to dismiss the possibility of empathizing with someone you don&#x27;t understand or don&#x27;t agree with.&quot; That&#x27;s a rather large sentence to swallow. Here, I&#x27;ll break it up for you:<p>&quot;The term sociopath is used by the public at large&quot;
Sociopath is a word, but not a diagnosis.<p>&quot;and is pretty much always used&quot;<p>&quot;to dismiss the possibility of empathizing&quot;<p>&quot;with someone you don&#x27;t understand or don&#x27;t agree with.&quot;<p>In this example, you are saying he has no conscience whatsoever. This excuses you from trying to understand who he his, it excuses you from asking a question like, &quot;What values and circumstances led him to make this decision?&quot; You want to believe that no possible set of reasonable values, under any circumstances, could ever lead a man to make these decisions. He must have no values. He must be a &quot;sociopath&quot;. A good, normal person like yourself could never make decisions like this. He must not be a good, normal person. He must be something else, he must be &quot;a sociopath&quot;. He must be some special label that allows you to put him in a box where you don&#x27;t have to empathize with him, where you don&#x27;t have to try to understand who he really is or why he made these decisions.