Yeah, I found the whining pretty cringeworthy; for all the kinda romanticising spiel about 'we are non-empaths and you are empaths' like it's humans vs vampires - two different species - I still struggle to find much difference between 'sociopath' and 'fucking arsehole'. I don't care or want to care about their lame self-justification. Morality is part and parcel of self-awareness, personhood: if a wonky chromosome really causes it to disappear I reckon we're no longer talking about an actual person any more. But I don't think this is the case.

Why do I say that morality is part and parcel of personhood? Because if I know that I am then I know that others are. If I know I suffer then I know others suffer. I don't even need to possess the capacity for tender emotions in order to see the significance of this: reason and awareness are sufficient and make their demand for integrity. Even sociopaths want to be 'right'. But do we satisfy ourselves with paltry, pseudo 'rightness' or aim for real truth? If some so-called sociopaths are people who are only different due to congenitally blunted social/empathic faculties, well I say that this does not exclude them from the moral dimension of life or in itself predestine them to evil actions.

Maybe the best trick the Devil ever pulled was to convince the world he's a medical condition.