According to an article I read last summer, both psychopaths as well as sociopaths have lots of opportunities to act out their impulses.
I would even go farther.
Life is all about choices. 17 long years ago, I had the fortune to ride the train from Bucharest to Budapest with a very nice Hungarian Jew.
The man made a lasting impression on me. He had escaped the iron curtain in the mid 70s. Went to NYC with no English. Taught himself EN by reading the labels of cans at the supermarket he was working for. Became the editor of a publishing house. He eventually ended up owning his own publishing house in NYC.
He had this to say to me when he heard I was headed for Budapest to do my medical tests to fast-track my move to Canada. This is what he told me:
Mister, in this life there are two categories of people: fu..ers and fu..ees!
Joe the Hungarian Jew, cca. Late April 2006
He meant to say that the 8 billion of us fall into two distinct categories: those who get shafted and those who do the shafting.
The man advised me to do anything not to end up in the former larger pool of people.
So, when I read this article about psychopathy and sociopathy, and how life offers loopholes for engaging in this behaviour with a clean conscience, I realized that most people have zero chances escaping the curse of living their lives as objects with voices.
’tis true what they say: The weak are meat the strong do eat!
Götterdämmerung 