It's rather interesting how Anti-social personality disorder, I'll say psychopath, psychopathy or ASPD mainly in this text even though they aren't 100% correct in describing what I'm speaking of. What I'm thinking of is the human urge of self preservation, or rather preservatation of our genetic code. As the old people used to call it "passing on their legacy" or in an almost poetically literal sense; Their blood.
Whenever a new serial killer or spree killer pops onto the headlines people are shocked and appalled at what went on, they can't believe that a person could commit such atrocious acts. To me its as simple as self preservation at all costs combined with a predisposition of having no empathy.
Most of us have wanted to take "unethical" steps to get that promotion, that girl, the car or whatever we were after in that moment, but few of us act on those impulses. Sure we might want to put sugar in a gas tank, or kill that bloody mutt that keeps barking when you need to get up in 3 hours. The question is, what holds us back? What stops Jane and John from Acting on their impulses is it Law, a sense of right and wrong, empathy or is it fear?
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