Psychopaths lack conscience from "summary" of Psychopathy by Andrea L. Glenn,Adrian Raine
Some individuals lack the ability to experience empathy or guilt, which can lead to a lack of conscience. This lack of conscience can profoundly affect the behavior and actions of a person, leading them to act in ways that other people would find morally questionable.- People classified as Psychopaths do not demonstrate any guilt or remorse for their actions, regardless of the outcome. Instead, they live a purely self-serving life lacking any conscience.
- Unlike most people who may feel regret and anguish over an action that caused harm to another, psychopaths can go about their daily lives emotionless and without care.
- Without a moral compass of sorts, psychopaths cannot recognize right from wrong in the sense of considering how their actions could cause someone else pain.
- Those with psychopathy tend to make choices based on personal benefit that rarely take into account the emotional consequences for others.
- For those with this condition, feelings of empathy and understanding are essentially non-existent, meaning no matter the severity of the act, there remains little internal conflict regarding decisions made.
- As a whole, individuals classified as being a psychopath do not experience discomfort when presented with situations calling for ethical decision making.
- Individuals affected by this disorder do not appear to be troubled by ethical questions which can often lead to hard to detect damage dealing behavior.
- Studies have shown that people with psychopathy have trouble gauging the difference between appropriate and inappropriate responses in various situations.
- For psychopathy sufferers, moral absolutes such as right and wrong or good and bad simply do not exist due to their lack of conscience.
- Regularly, someone identified as having psychopathy responds to others much like one would respond to a thing.
