ext_344286 ([identity profile] basement.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] overocea 2003-10-18 06:32 am (UTC)

there is actually a difference between sociopathy and psychopathy, slight though it may be: http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/428/428lect16.htm.

since you so bluntly declared No:
I tend to think that they do realise murder, as anything, has consequences. they just don't care. that they do realise there is a difference between right and wrong, they just don't care.

perhaps if they were not surrounded by people telling them, in various ways, the difference between right and wrong, they would not realise/know there was a difference. but you could then argue that in this they may not differ from everyone else; that neither would anyone be aware of that difference, because it is impossible to test.

hope that made sense; i'm not at my most lucid.

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