>> Googling revealed no studies or data on the topic. > Ergo, there must be no articles on the subject, right? Not at all what I said. In fact, my very next s

>> Googling revealed no studies or data on the topic. > Ergo, there must be no articles on the subject, right? Not at all what I said. In fact, my very next sentence was clearly making a guess, and it was just the opposite of your guess (without evidence, all we can do is guess). > I would probably start with this one. [link] That link is to a list of studies, not a single study. Also, they are studies of "crime", which includes things like "arsony" and "homicide", not just "package theft" Those studies are useless to figure out how likely it is for package thieves to be sociopaths. A study on thieves specifically would be better, but if it made no distinction between violent and non-violent thieves it would also be pretty useless. Package thieves are being very non-violent by stealing packages on porches (hoping to not run into anyone) rather than violent thieves that may walk into homes and rob/kill people. > It's not that I don't have empathy for a demographic I didn't say you did, and I'm sorry if you thought I was implying that. I never meant to discuss your empathy. In fact, if you read my comment again, you may notice I'm actually talking about thieves lacking empathy for demographics, and I'm calling that prejudice (not sociopathy/psychopathy). Unless you have a (good, not shitty) study that demonstrates a clear correlation between package thieves (or non-violent thieves in general) and significantly higher chances of them being sociopaths/psychopaths than normal people, your argument is based on conjecture that such a thing is true. By contrast, my argument relies on package thieves having similar chances of sociopaths/psychopaths to people who society doesn't deem as "theieves" - even if package thieves are a little bit more prone to being sociopaths/psychopaths that most people, my argument still holds because wouldn't be so many sociopathic/psychopathic package thieves that helping some would be a bad idea. You'd need there to be a small percentage of non-sociopathic/psychopathic package thieves to show that there is no point in trying to use empathy with most package thieves