I believe though that sociopathy is also defined by an inability to feel any kind of sympathy for any other being. There may be many people with no morals or lacking guilt, but to have these traits and also completely lack any sympathy for any other being would make a sociopath. Sociopaths are the kind of people who can watch a kitten being tortured because hey, it's not happening to them. They have trouble seeing other people as people like them.

Sounds like Voldy to me. :)

Sociopathy is believed by researchers to be a combination of nature and nurture, but afaik the nature has to be present. Could be wrong, not a psychologist.

Stephanie//Slytherin