In the book 'The sociopath next door', Dr. Stout defines the sociopath as someone who lacks conscience.
Conscience, as she defines it, is 'a sense of obligation ultimately based in a emotional attachment to another living creature'.
What do you think of this definition?
Also if you have read the book, what is your opinion?
by iammaskIn the book 'The sociopath next door', Dr. Stout defines the sociopath as someone who lacks conscience.
Conscience, as she defines it, is 'a sense of obligation ultimately based in a emotional attachment to another living creature'.
What do you think of this definition?
I needn't see or know who I harmed to experience a guilty conscience.
Would that still be considered emotional attachment for another creature ? It sounds opinionated to me. At this point I'm still forced to concur with that definition.
Also if you have read the book, what is your opinion?
I listened to a quarter of it. It sounded bias and cocky, maybe cause it's designed to uplift those who are victims of sociopathy. Make them less worried. It seems like an ok introduction before moving onto a personalized point of view.
I define conscience differently, without placing judgment on it.
The conscience is like the neutral calculator, which decides based on 0 or 1, true or false, this over that choice.
What is the key is how the conscience is programmed to make decisions.
So just because a certain sociopath may be designed or programmed to kill or whatever, does not mean the conscience doesn't exist. it means it has karmic conditioning or programming within that conscience that compels such person to act.
CLARIFIED it, thanks TC. it does not mean "a" as in "all sociopaths"
it means the level 1 sociopath on my scale where that person has no control or choice in this drive to do things
it means a particular case where this is driving the person with no choice in the matter, which is rare