The higher empath is both more evolved and more adapted than the sociopath, no matter what the latter try to tell themselves and everyone else.
The higher empath scoffs at much of what passes as "morality" or ethics in mush culture; However, he has a way of gauging what is just and pragmatic as opposed to what is maladaptive - and this gauging is of a very high order.
Higher empaths make a distinction between dullards who are to be paid no real mind, and even used afte a fashion, and people of real value, who must be respected and viewed in the Kantian sense, as ends in themselves: Never as means to any end.
Conversely, sociopaths adhere to no morality, high or low; they make no distinction between valuable or substandard people - all are to be used to their petty ends.
Thus do sociopaths show themselves to be unevolved in, and maladapted to, reality and the laws of evolution.