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Originally Posted by NeonSamurai
Estimates are about 1% of the general population, possibly higher. We have a reasonable idea of population % for the non-socialized/criminal type, but only very rough estimates for the socialized type.
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That's fairly much I'd say
Good thing not all psychopaths are of the criminal, non-socialized kind then...
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Being entertained isn't exactly an emotion (neither is boredom) but more of a state of mind or level of arousal.
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Hmm okay.. if I understand you correctly, an emotion must be something like the result of a state of mind. As in, a normal person finds something amusing, so he gets happy? And psychopaths are capable of experiencing these state of minds, and can like or dislike those, but cannot experience the ensuing emotions?
How about love? Can psychopaths feel truly attracted to someone? Isn't love more like a primal instinct to ensure procreation? Or is it "just" an emotion?
And if they find a partner, do they choose her/him only because he/she can give some kind of advantage in life, or also because the psychopath likes her/his looks?
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That would be debatable. Also sadism is technically a sexual dysfunction which means the person derives sexual pleasure from sadistic behavior. What I am more driving at is that psychopaths do not experience pleasure in the same way normal people do. So while we may call them sadistic due to behavior, I don't feel they are truely sadistic given how they seem to experience pleasure (at best they experience a very shallow version of pleasure, most don't seem to show it at all, at least in a way normal people would understand).
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Hmm, so a psychopath can not be a sadist in the traditional meaning of the word, while it's not impossible for one to like torturing people? Thereby not gaining the pleasure a "normal" sadist does, but finding it, in your words, "amusing or entertaining" to torture their victims?