A sadly passed HN denizen wrote the "The Psychopath Code" which I strongly recommend to everyone. First to recognize the Hollywood villain you describe is not

A sadly passed HN denizen wrote the "The Psychopath Code" which I strongly recommend to everyone. First to recognize the Hollywood villain you describe is not the typical case and that an appreciable fraction of the population will be blind to various hues of of the emotional gamut most of us (I hope) are aware of. The evolutionary pressure is to not cycle through hundreds of complex, cascading emotional states before deciding to act. [0] https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/psychopathcode/content/ https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/psychopathcode/content/