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I watched an interesting documentary about psychopaths amongst us in society, with some bloodthirsty and war-mongering politicians, top business executives and leaders, bankers, and some boxing champions amongst the list of emotionless and narcissistic psychopaths according to experts. They tend to make great leaders and successful bosses with a lot of driving energy in top companies. They can be useful as they won't get emotional when they're hiring and firing people who work for them.
Not all psychopaths are dangerous serial killers and they can even use their disorder to their advantage to enhance their leadership or business skills.
I guess the reason why they're stereotyped with serial killers like Ted Bundy is because that's the only time most people tend to hear about psychopaths in the media is when they've done something shocking. They're not realising that psychopaths can look like and appear as normal people and they live amongst us in everyday life without necessarily being someone who just murders random people who've done nothing to them with no feelings of guilt. (Just like there's plenty of manic depressives (bipolars) and schizophrenics in society who hear voices in their head who aren't all dangerous. There's many people with bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia, who have high intelligence and a lot of creative skills.)
Experts often debate if it's nature or nurture that creates and produces a psychopath... or a combination of both and being born as a psychopath along with their childhood experiences/upbringing.
I wouldn't like to get into an argument with a psychopath. (Well, anyone can be lethal when provoked enough without being psychopathic... but psychos may have a shorter fuse and would think nothing of their actions.) They don't feel regret or remorse or guilt. They tend to thrive on being flattered and showered with complements as they're so narcissistic and it boosts their ego.
A relative balance of narcissism is normal in humans for a healthy ego: too little self-love and someone will have low self-esteem. Too much... well, look at Stears for an example of someone who excessively idolises themself.
Richard Kuklinski was emotionally as cold as ice and was probably a heartless psychopath (although I'm not sure if he is or not as he showed emotions around his family and he doesn't have the charm of a psychopath like Ted Bundy had,) but he killed over 200 men during a 30 year span when he was frequently hired to murder men who owed money as a contract killer and hitman. He would plan his methods and it was premeditated murder. It's not like the men he killed had caused him to hate them, or had personally done something to harm him or his family and deserved to die in an act of revenge and justice. His motive was money and greed.
If he felt guilty about his crimes, then he wouldn't have been able to function and continue doing his job of executing people. Although some people hide their feelings, he doesn't show any emotions and hardly shows any remorse whilst casually and sometimes gleefully talking about killing so many people with cyanide, shooting people dead, strangling people up close and personal, etc, and receiving very large sums of money for it. He calmly discusses the methods and tactics he used to kill people, as if he's discussing killing and murdering a living colony of insects, or murdering a fly.
An infamous psychopath is Ted Bundy. He even confidantly stood in court and represented himself as his own lawyer due to his law qualifications and massive ego, and absolutely relished in all the attention given to him by the media and his female fans and admirers. They just couldn't believe that someone as charming and 'nice' as Ted Bundy appeared to be in the courtroom was capable of being a dangerous serial killer.
Acting as his own defence lawyer, he tried to intimidate a witness on the stand by questioning her in the courtroom, and he asked her to look around in court and point to the man who attacked her and tried to kill her ... and she pointed her finger directly at him and said 'you.' He wanted her to recite all the details of her ordeal to him, as he was loving the media attention and the feeling of power.
He was articulate and well-educated, dressed in smart suits, charmed the females he killed like a spider luring a fly into its web and trap, pretended to fall over and be injured while he walked past a female, deliberately dropped his papers and books on the ground, pretended to be lost and in need of directions, etc, so a naive college student walking by herself in a quiet location would be manipulated and would stop and try to help him, before he would suddenly grab her and knock her out with an iron bar on the head, and beat his victims to death in an emotionless frenzy.
Then he'd calmly enjoy his dinner with no remorse or feelings of guilt, no conscience, and he would continue with his law studies and impress people around him, before secretly and deviously killing loads more females after breaking into their rooms. He wasn't insane because he knew what he was doing.
In his final interview just hours before his execution was scheduled, he was so narcissistic and thought he was omnipotent and so important. He thought he'd get a longer stay on Death Row and he didn't believe he would ever die by frying in an electric chair.
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Originally Posted by al-Bosni
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