Maybe some of this is coming from a definitional difference—sociopathy as a “disability of not being able to care emotionally for others” is different from it being akin to, if not an obsolete synonym for, antisocial personality disorder. I don’t think calling people who lack affective empathy, without more, sociopaths is likely to be helpful.
Maybe some of this is coming from a definitional difference—sociopathy as a “disability of not being able to care emotionally for others” is different from it being akin to, if not an obsolete synonym for, antisocial personality disorder. I don’t think calling people who lack affective empathy, without more, sociopaths is likely to be helpful.
Ah, I wasn’t aware that that wasn’t the conventional definition. Thanks for the correction.
Still, I think it’s important to somehow manage both sets of people and we can probably do better, though my idea is quite random.