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- noun Plural form of
sociopath .
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Examples
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The truth is that companies such as Facebook are basically the corporate world's equivalent of sociopaths, that is to say individuals who are completely lacking in conscience and respect for others.
John Naughton: With friends like Facebook, who needs sociopaths? 2012
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Sounds like you should check in – sociopaths like you often turn into serial killers.
Think Progress » Colbert to Kristol: “How Is The New American Century?” 2006
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June 3, 2009 at 11: 54 pm. .yes, but all polititions are 'sociopaths' - lying criminal pyscopaths on a a society wide scale of influence/action.
WordPress.com News 2009
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For his offspring — or worse, Rita’s, as in the books — to become sociopaths is a shark best left unjumped.
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Part of me simply thinks it fulfills a human need to love and be loved unconditionally, which would explain why one of the signs of sociopaths is cruelty to animals at an earlier age, but that doesn’t explain the cultural divergences.
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MCGRAW: Well, and I-- you know, one of the things that I've observed over the years with psychopathic personalities -- sometimes referred to as sociopaths or anti-social personality disorders ...
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Johnathan raises one of the most puzzling questions about sociopaths, which is this: Are they born without a conscience, or do they move onto this one-way street sometime during their lifetime?
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Modern psychiatrists prefer to call sociopaths "people suffering from anti-social personality disorder," though as a Szaszian aside, I'd say that if anyone "suffers" from it, it's the people who don't have it!
Is Homo Economicus A Sociopath?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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They're called sociopaths -- ie: those not concerned one wit about others 'pain or death.
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These people are known as sociopaths and psychopaths, and they have no regard, nor can they empathize with anybody else, although they can feign it.
Willing Ignorance or the Worst Cases of Denial in the History of Mankind 2008
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