The late, great Pieter Hintjens touches on this point in his book "The Psychopath Code" [1]. Psychopathy seems to exist along a spectrum -- it's present in all

The late, great Pieter Hintjens touches on this point in his book "The Psychopath Code" [1]. Psychopathy seems to exist along a spectrum -- it's present in all of us to varying degrees, and may not become "activated" for most people, in most situations. There is a good argument that this cat-and-mouse game has been going on for as long as "freeloading" has been going on, which is to say it is probably older than humanity. [1] https://www.gitbook.com/book/hintjens/psychopathcode/details https://www.gitbook.com/book/hintjens/psychopathcode/details