Having had the chance to work with some people I highly expect were diagnosable sociopath/psychopaths, I'd say the opposite is true. People really, really don't

Having had the chance to work with some people I highly expect were diagnosable sociopath/psychopaths, I'd say the opposite is true. People really, really don't want to believe that about 1 in 100 people have absolutely no conscience and thrive on manipulation and sadism. Or that we've created a culture that rewards this kind of behavior. I've watched co-workers bend over backwards to rationalize people who make monotone "jokes" about their desire to harm and kill others. I understand - it's a horrifying baseline condition for human society. But pretending like it's untrue or limited to some tiny subset of marginal deviants isn't getting us anywhere. Most socipaths/psychopaths are non-violent and still manage to cause immeasureable harm in people's lives, every day.