Some people are born sociopaths I think but usually their upbringing add to it. But take someone like Dennis Raider BTK, from all accounts his upbringing was completely normal and his parents decent people. Yet from a young age he enjoyed killing animals and the act of binding himself. He had a normal life yet became one of the most evil killers in recent history. Then again I grew up in an abusive household and it just made me able to empathize with others more and make me have a strong sense of justice.
@Nitedoc And then those traits skip some members of the same family so there’s that. There was an old white-haired man who worked as a painter at the university. He was such a perv. For years he would only talk about young women and imply or say sexual things like seeing coeds half-dressed in front of windows or whatever. It’s like that was all he could think about to talk about. All of us women tried to stay away from him the best we could but sometimes would come back from lunch and hear him talking like that to another employee he knew. Then one day my supervisor said that he had a brain tumor and was having to be off for surgery. When he came back he was the most respectful and thoughtful person in everything he said. He seemed to be completely different and I didn’t feel creeped out around him. I told my supervisor that I thought that brain tumor had something to do with his previous personality. I had seen a story on 60 Minutes about an older man who had a brain tumor and had surgery. Before it was discovered he had molested his granddaughter. It happened one time and her mother turned him into the police. The girl was a teen and she said he had never acted that way before it happened. And after the surgery he seemed different . She and her family believed that the brain tumor and where it was situated in his brain was responsible for what he did and they wanted the judge to drop the charges.
