as I said, copy and paste the bit which implies a romantic view. All you have done is copied and pasted my words and reinforced your misinterpretation of those words. I want the exact words that imply 'romantic' view not a matter of fact description of pshcopath psyche.
meanwhile re your additionally imagined 'my avoidance of your points'.
I have this to say and only this on that point
If a person came along and tried to persuade you that the grass beneath your feet was infact the deep blue sea, would you try to persuade them they were wrong...ongoingly...ongoingly...ongoingly or would you simply accept (after the obligatory first rational attempt) that they just were not 'getting it' and move on. Life after all is for living not wasting on fruitless endeavour.
I have no romantic view of the alleged psychopath psyche. I just tell it as it is. I will not say that a dispicable murderer with the physical strength of 4 men is in reality as weak as a doormouse if the reality is that he does (by a freak of nature or steroids or lots of weight lifting) have the strenbgth of 4 men.
The psychopath does not exist, only a label we attach to people who do things we cannot understand, things which fill us with fear, things which we cannot find a mental health problem cause for. So we create a 'monster' and we call it the 'psychopath' could just as easily be called the 'boggie man'. Oh and the boggie man doesn't exist either incase you were wondering.
These 'monsters' have varying degree's of conscience. They have varying degree's of desire to exist within the rules and outside them. To them the 'unit' is what is important not the whole (whole being society). They may extend this to the family units, friends etc or NOT as the case may be. As a result they can live within the rules they create for themselves and disregard our rules.
I am not proud of those that live outside the rules, they are a nusiance.
I spent years trying to understand them, wondering why they had no conscience with regards to what they did, but in the end, I recognise it is simply an exagerrated form of what we all possess. Lack of consideration, selfishness, etc. Before you say we are largely not like this, simply consider the state of our world today.
This world would be peacful if we were not like this, but we are on the whole selfish , power seeking, aggressive, individuals, looking out for our own.
Not me of course, I am a passifist, tree hugging vegetarian who loves babies and small children. My ambition is to bring world peace (after I've won Miss World).