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Steemian @cardoprimo wanted to know 
'There was no row for curability. Do you think psychos and cold-blooded villains can ever live in peaceful co-existence? Is it hereditary?'

I will just write about the psychopath and sociopath because they can come out as similar but in the essence, they are not.

The Machiavellian ( a fraudster) and narcissist ( an emotional vampire) do not fall into the extremely category like the psychopaths and sociopaths.

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## Psychopath

Psychopaths are only dangerous if you actually provoke them, which can be anything really, but a major thing is if they find a person dangerous.  If not, they don't give a shit. 
You can scream at them, make all kind of bs, even cause them some material or financial damage, but if they don't find you existentially life-threatening, they will not be triggered.
Psychopaths are not triggered by a loss of money or possessions, so if you grab some money from them or crash their car, they will not even blink at you.
There is a bigger chance they will poison a neighbor's dog that appears dangerous ( because a dog has teeth and barks all time...).
They are born non-emotional and everything sums down to existence to them, like insects. 
Some psychologists contemplate that psychopathy ( on this level) is actually an evolutionary mutation and not a mental disorder. 

## Sociopath

Sociopaths are a category that is problematic. Most of the monsters ( I think all of them) in prisons are sociopaths, and not psychos.
Sociopaths hate humans and they can be triggered by anything. The reaction is violent and hostile, without any thinking and erratic. A sociopath will go after you like a rabid dog.
Even if you end up in some sort of an accident with a sociopath, like a minor car accident, he will go insane and crazy right there.
Sociopaths are born as normal human beings but due to some trauma, they are changed into a perversion of a human being. Everything sums down to the pleasure of violence and right after it a masochistic self-deprivation. 
Sociopathy is not an adaptation of any kind, these people have absolutely normal brains, they feel fear, they experience stress and guilt.

## Superficial Similarities 
The reason why many people see them as alike or extremely alike is that both of them are on the surface egocentric, un-emotional, extremely aloof, cold, show the extreme displays of rage, huge sense for entitlement, thinking they are better of others, no empathy, risk-prone, excitement seeking... etc.

This is why some branches of psychology consider a psychopath and sociopath to be a synonym with variations, and instead of a sociopath, they use another term for the last tetrad member - a sadist. With all traits taken into consideration, a sadist is a sociopath, so I will stick to the previous division.

## Differences between psychopath and sociopath 

I will explain each point listed above.

Both psycho and sociopath are egocentrics, risk-prone, and excitement seeking. This is beyond the debate.

The sociopath is only emotionally cold on a surface, psycho is in general all-through a block of ice. Unlike the sociopath, a psycho can fake emotions and act through them impeccably.

Aloofness is another trait that is very obvious, both of them withdraw after being affected by some sort of an emotional bombing - a sociopath does it because he knows an impact of teh emotions and psycho does it because he knows others will see he feels nothing.
Coldness- a psychopath has a natural cold 'aura', you can feel it, but sociopath really exuberates an evil kind of the same. You feel danger from him, and it is rarely a wrong conclusion.

Display of rage is extreme, but also different. The sociopath will have a huge and long reaction and will need maybe even hours to calm down. The psychopath will be a tornado one moment and a complete expressional plank of wood teh next. This is because he doesn't actually feel anything, he acts it to intimidate and regain power.

Entitlement - a sociopath feels somehow better for other people and usually feels teh disgust towards them. But, he has nothing to back up that claim a din general sociopaths are actually much worse than average people in their achievements if any. The psychopath is the opposite. He has in comparison to a huge ego no vanity whatsoever. His conclusion that he is better than others comes to a logical conclusion by observing how stress influences an average people. Of course, he does not experience any so his performance is naturally, more effective.

Empathy - sociopath will show and have zero empathy for people, while psychopath has no idea what empathy is but can develop an ability to be extremely empathetic. Psychopaths are highly intelligent and not only they can learn to emulate emotions, they can also recognize them in detail.

## Conclussion 

So to answer the question I was given...

With all taken into consideration, a psychopath ( as a natural occurrence among the population) can be a part of society without any incident, while a sociopath - can not.

Just being born with a brain that can't acknowledge complex emotions or be able to synthesize an essence of empathy is not a base to become a cold-blooded murderer.
Just being driven to a life of a perpetual pain, misery and torture is not a base for a person to become a sociopath either.
There should be something besides that to explain individual differences.

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