Psychopaths...How Can You Spot One?

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Psychopaths lack remorse and empathy for others, and only have shallow emotions. Many of them wouldn't really care if you lived or died. They are known to be emotionally disconnected to other people, and view them as just objects to be manipulated or destroyed. Many psychopaths are mass murders, but they can also be coworkers, spouses or anyone you may come in contact with. Read more here...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10737827/Psychopaths-how-can-you-spot-one.html
 
There are a few things we take for granted in social interactions with people. We presume that we see the world in roughly the same way, that we all know certain basic facts, that words mean the same things to you as they do to me. And we assume that we have pretty similar ideas of right and wrong.
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I take none of those things for granted - does that make me a psychopath?

If so, I'm offended - I've always seen myself as a high-functioning sociopath.
 
There is one in my family and believe me he has all of the following.

The following characteristics of a psychopath

Superficial charm and average intelligence.
Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking.
Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations.
Unreliability.
Untruthfulness and insincerity.
Lack of remorse or shame.
Antisocial behavior without apparent compunction.
Poor judgement and failure to learn from experience.
Pathological egocentricity and incapacity to love.
General poverty in major affective reactions.
Specific loss of insight.
Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations.
Fantastic and uninviting behavior with drink, and sometimes without.
Suicide threats rarely carried out.
Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated.
Failure to follow any life plan.
 
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