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How far down the rabbit-hole do you want to go, to understand the Dark Side of the Force? As Nietzsche said "If one gazes long into an Abyss, the Abyss will also gaze into thee."
I define sociopathology (and psychopathology) as the inability to feel empathy for others, to have little or no remorse, guilt for actions or fear of consequences. Someone who took out their conscience, murdered it, threw it in a burlap sack, and buried it down by the river a long time ago. The freedom from the shackles which constrain most men, does in fact allow more risk taking behavior, more ruthlessness, more reward - but also allows more likelyhood of being a serial killer as well as a CEO.
socio+psycho -pathology are best understood in relation to, and contrast with, Machiavellianism and Narcissism. These three together form "The Dark Triad".
If and only if, you find such character studies fascinating; and can deal with violent, unpopular, offensive subject matter, then I recomment this blog - as upvoted by *thousands* of redditors and page views: https://illimitablemen.com/2013/12/28/understanding-psychopathy/
The blog has plenty of well written material on the Dark Triad topics, if you dare follow the sidebar links.
Some sociopaths are psychopaths (violent antisocial personality disorder), and others are the CEO, CIO, CFO, et cetera of major international companies.
Not to mention presidents of nations. Lots of voters must adore sociopaths.
If you have ever heard someone say, "I'll do anything to get my way," you don't need the test to know what that person is.
Had a coworker who said that, and her actions matched. She got fired after a very long period of abuses she indulged in (against both other people and "the rules" including federal laws). That's when all the other things coworkers had quietly observed started coming out into the open. I was floored at the extremes to which this person would go, and she kept it up as she was being escorted out by armed guards. When her ID badge was confiscated, she promptly tried to photocopy it, right at work. Of course, she got caught at that. Grinning and laughing it off like, "Oh, well, can you blame me for trying?" She had been greatly aided in her activities by higher-ups and a peer, both of whom were fired the same day, and an even higher-up who was, shall we say, convinced to resign with one week's notice--after a discreet delay in timing, of course. The ruse fooled NOBODY.
Worst part was hearing later that the sociopath bred.
My dad always said tell them what you think they want to hear. That'll be the correct answer.
Tell them what you think they want to hear, unless you sense they think you are going to. Then, you can appeal to their ego with "Look Steve, I could just tell you what you want to hear, but you're too smart for that so I am not going to bull**** you. Here's what I really think". Then you tell them what they want to hear.
Or they tell you you are being too sensitive or can't take a joke, or gaslight.
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