[Skybird]

A diagnosed psychopathic personality structure is a person who has no ability to feel empathy and thus cannot feel the justified needs and desires and emotions of other living beings, may it be animals or humans. Therefore they treat them cold, cruel, abusive and torture them like they want and see useful - like you and me claim the right to place that dead book on the table in the way we want it, in the left corner or the right corner, closed or open, and if the book would all of a sudden resist our will, we would become enraged and feel free to shredder or burn it without remorse, for we think it is just a thing without a will of its own. We would feel no moral scruples and no guilt. That is what a psychopath is. Living beigns are things to him, and he reserves the right to handle them like things and to manipulate them like he wants, like you keep the flowers on your table one day longer, of throw them away already today. You do not feel guilty if throwing them away. You feel no obligations to them and no responsibility for your handling of them. Things are things only.

Its most likely indeed a neurally encoded deficit, a handicap in the hardware that you cannot argue with, cannot convince and cannot give therapy of any sorts to, and so there is no known treatment or cure to it - you an only lock such a person away, or kill it. Lower grades of psychopathic personality characterics are found to be comulated in certain professional branches like politics, banking management, doctors, and higher ranks and leasdership psoitions in many other branches as well. Yopu need a certain power and willingness to be brutal to do certain things or climb in the popwer hierarchy. This shows that we are talking about not a fixiated quality state (either you are psychopathic or not), but a spectrum of psychopathic quality (we all are psychopaths, some more, some less). I claim that the socially helpful jobs also show many non-maximum-grade psychopaths in action, they define themselves by the power they have over others.