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Originally posted by Lord Lucien
A difficult word to classify people as. It's not very straight forward. The traits of psychopathy from a 1941 book called The Mask of Sanity:

1.) Superficial charm and good "intelligence"
2.) Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking
3.) Absence of "nervousness" or psychoneurotic manifestations
4.) Unreliability
5.) Untruthfulness and insincerity
6.) Lack of remorse and shame
7.) Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior
8.) Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience
9.) Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love
10.) General poverty in major affective reactions
11.) Specific loss of insight
12.) Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations
13.) Fantastic and uninviting behavior with drink and sometimes without
14.) Suicide threats rarely carried out
15.) Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
16.) Failure to follow any life plan.


I don't know much about Maul, so does he fit many of those?

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Originally posted by Lord Lucien
Answers that.


Now how many does Anakin fit?

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Originally posted by Lord Lucien
A difficult word to classify people as. It's not very straight forward. The traits of psychopathy from a 1941 book called The Mask of Sanity:

1.) Superficial charm and good "intelligence"
2.) Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking
3.) Absence of "nervousness" or psychoneurotic manifestations
4.) Unreliability
5.) Untruthfulness and insincerity
6.) Lack of remorse and shame
7.) Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior
8.) Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience
9.) Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love
10.) General poverty in major affective reactions
11.) Specific loss of insight
12.) Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations
13.) Fantastic and uninviting behavior with drink and sometimes without
14.) Suicide threats rarely carried out
15.) Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
16.) Failure to follow any life plan.

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Originally posted by PTforthewin
didn't maul care about his brother? He seemed to look really sad and angry and surprised when he saw sidious kill him,

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Originally posted by Emperordmb
Psychopath:
a person suffering from chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior.

Sociopath:
a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience.

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1.) Superficial charm and good "intelligence"

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2.) Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking

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3.) Absence of "nervousness" or psychoneurotic manifestations

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4.) Unreliability

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5.) Untruthfulness and insincerity

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6.) Lack of remorse and shame

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7.) Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior

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8.) Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience

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9.) Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love

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10.) General poverty in major affective reactions

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11.) Specific loss of insight

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12.) Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations

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13.) Fantastic and uninviting behavior with drink and sometimes without

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14.) Suicide threats rarely carried out

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15.) Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated

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16.) Failure to follow any life plan.

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Originally posted by Lord Lucien
A difficult word to classify people as. It's not very straight forward. The traits of psychopathy from a 1941 book called The Mask of Sanity:

1.) Superficial charm and good "intelligence"
2.) Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking
3.) Absence of "nervousness" or psychoneurotic manifestations
4.) Unreliability
5.) Untruthfulness and insincerity
6.) Lack of remorse and shame
7.) Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior
8.) Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience
9.) Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love
10.) General poverty in major affective reactions
11.) Specific loss of insight
12.) Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations
13.) Fantastic and uninviting behavior with drink and sometimes without
14.) Suicide threats rarely carried out
15.) Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
16.) Failure to follow any life plan.


I don't know much about Maul, so does he fit many of those?

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Originally posted by WildBantha88
Also I think about every sith to ever exist was a sociopath to an extent.

Lets see
Malgus entered rage fuelled bloodlusting frenzies on a regular basis and he murdered his own girlfriend

Bane held a mans child over a large pot of boiling stew right after murdering an entire family of inocents, to his credit he was doing it to stay alive but he has commited mass murder on multiple occasions

Oh heres a good one
Plageuis kept a living sentient being as a science experiment where he killed it multiple times just to revive it and kill it again.

And Darth Vader/Anakin commited genocide....a lot. Im almost convinced it was his pass time.

So yea, I think its a safe bet to say there sociopaths.

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Originally posted by WildBantha88
Ummm, I fit a lot of those catagories.....am I a sociopath?

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Originally posted by Lord Lucien
Do you have a source for that? Those sound like two symptoms of the same condition that have been arbitrarily separated. Sociopathy is often used to either avoid the stigma of the 'psycho' prefix, or to describe the disorder when it's socially imparted or gained through experience. But otherwise their typically synonyms.