how long have people here been thinking about this subject?
hdiver stated: source post
trust and sociopathy
It's actually an interesting premise. If a person is unable to extend any trust to others it would shape all of their interactions and potentially form a pattern of perpetual deception. What if sociopathy is just that simple. Who knew.
It only makes sense to define disorders based on primary (read: inborn) or secondary (acquired) physiological malfunctions in the brain. For purely behavioral stuff there are PDs. Socio(/psycho)pathy is a set of brain malfunctions, which typically go together and manifest in little to no empathy and fear, and very weak emotional response with possible exception for anger. If psychiatric community wasn't as biased and corrupted as it is, there wouldn't be ASPD, but psychopathy.
"Sociopathy", frankly, sounds retarded. It's writers using trends of word usage in pop-media creating rad abominations of words. Surprised there was no quantopathy.