Yours is the best description on here that I’ve read so far.
A sociopath is made. A neglected infancy, early childhood trauma, some failure to bond with a trustworthy adult. Sadly, small degrees of it can come from early parental separation. I’ve seen it manifest in two different varieties: parents taking off for a long vacation at the wrong time in the toddler’s development, shattering his security, and, worse, a child born with heart problems and needing long hospitalizations and surgeries, back when they didn’t let the parent stay 24/7 beside the child.
A sociopath doesn’t, can’t really love. But they can really WANT. There can be degrees of sociopathy. Two good examples are Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Clinton obviously received love as a young child and he does feel things and care about some others. He was abandoned by his sperm donor and step dad, and oversexualized by him mom. While he committed reprehensible crimes, he probably “hated” having to do it or felt guilty after. When he lied to us, he really worked hard to try and get us to believe his lies.
Contrast that with Barack Obama, who experienced utter rejection by both parents very young. He appears so “cool” and if he “doesn’t care” because he was forced to stop caring so very young. So he truly can commit crimes etc with no guilt or moral twinge. When he read lies to us off his beloved prompter, it was obvious to all that he didn’t care we knew they were lies.
Both have sociopathy but Obama’s is a few degrees deeper.
It’s a difficult thing to grow past — the salvation means and story of God can do it, fighting as it goes against the supernatural hindrances that Christians call the devil.
Lives that have found a cynical basis to lean on are so tragically sad.
But anyhow with Strzok he apparently felt like a veritable hero singling out Donald Trump for hate. Hate frames everything else it sees as cynical and hate.
my brother who is a psychopath former just sociopath hen we were kids has a very troubling past he was adopted but not put up for adoption till e was seven years old. my family adopted him at nine years old...real charming kid hen you first meet him. we knew there was something wrong after the first month. about four months into living with us one of my dads next door neighbors who had retired from the FBI took my dad aside and told my dad that my brother in his opinion was a sociopath. as time went by e got his history....mom prostitute ho was owned by a bike gang . at five he would be sent out of the house with crackers and a soda while his mom had Johns at the house. he was molested sevral times under circumstance we don’t really know of . At six his grandma ended up with him while mom went to jail....grandma could not handle him and he enter foster care at seven after two years in foster care my parents adopted....sociopath’s and psychopaths are made by society. I am sure there is an organic component to it but the one common requirement is a child’s needs not being met at a very young age along with major abuse of the child.
eventually my Brother would end up killing his girl friend when the sociopathic activities in his life devolved into psychopathy. My Brother is the reason for a death penalty. if he was out of prison again he would kill and there is a good chance that the girl he killed was not his first.