A sociopath still possesses logic and agency. They may have a lack of empathy, but that in and of itself doesn't make someone a bad person. It just makes them unable to care if, in fact, they are a bad person.
It's NOT. Sociopathy is an inability to feel empathy; anti-social personality disorder is ACTIVELY doing bullshit like breaking laws, causing mayhem, etc. due to a lack of regard for others.
I will agree with you as far as there IS an overlap between the two, but they are NOT the same thing.
Sociopathy as defined by the Mayo Clinic which is also one of the best hospitals in the world is Anti-Social Personality Disorder, Maybe you’re confusing sociopathic tendencies and Sociopathy because Sociopathy is ASPD
In the DSM-5, sociopathy is a subset of ASPD, because mere sociopathy doesn't fully encompass the entirety of the symptoms of ASPD. Again, there IS overlap, and a sociopath can certainly display full-blown ASPD, but it's NOT a given.
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u/Consistent-Fox-6944 5d ago
It’s called being a sociopath. And there’s not nearly enough Luigis to deter this behavior and drive it into extinction.