Watching it now. A true sociopath. Have any of you ever met one?
I think I have. I believe that my niece is one. She has done some pretty bad things only to get out of a little housework. Scary.
shareI think I have. I believe that my niece is one. She has done some pretty bad things only to get out of a little housework. Scary.
shareYou might be wrong. I am no expert on this but I think the girl was a PSYCHOPATH which is EVEN WORSE. Most sociopaths are not THAT EVIL. A Psychopath is what I think that girl was.
shareI agree, I have noticed that alot of people tend to use the two terms interchangeably even though they are very different from each other. What separates a person who is a psycopath from sociooath is there thoght process and ability to feel empathy or really any humanizing traits. Although a person who is a sociopath has the ability to do awful things they still have the abiity to feel emapthy and have compassion. In rhodas case she is not a person that posses either of those traits. A sociopath is usually the result of eniormental probles in childhood while a psycopath was born the way they are. What makes Rhoda a psycopath is her lack of conscience. I would not necessarily call her evil because i don't think she has passionnate hate that drives her, just missing emotions . What makes her horrible and actually worst is her view on killing people. In the movie it is shown that she cant comprehend why it is wrong to kill people, eventhough she knows there are punishments for such acts. Usually by the time a psychopath reaches adulthood they know how to show false empathy and emotion, however rhoda being eight does not know to act. She knows that her false sweetness and charm when interacting with adults gives her an advantage, but when it comes to claudes death she does not know how she comes acroos to her mother. She seems to be indifferent about the accident and that is what makes her mother disturbed. Her coldness also came through when she could not not see the point of claudes mother wanting to bury him with, claude was dead and would not know it was there. In Rhodas mind it was practilcal to kill claude for the medal, it was a means to an end. It was not her anger toward him that fuels her, it was merly that he posessed the the medal. A good example of her practicle killing is how she dealt with leroy. She does not kill him for harassing her constantly, she kills him when she thinks he has her shoes. The fear of punishment is why she killed leroy, and later in the movie, monica being alive gets in the way of her acquiring the love birds. Psychopaths do not realize the significance of death, just the inconvenience of punishment thats results from the act, although not all of them a murderes.
shareI was a child myself when I saw this on tv and it really chilled me when her mother was horrified that she had murdered a man and she said in a kind of surprised and confused way "but you said yourself you did not like him" like that is the same as giving permission. She did not understand that you cannot just kill anyone you do not like, if we all did that society would cave in.
I know the movie ended when it ended but in real life one's luck eventually runs out. I cannot see her making it through life without getting caught.
Actually read a book that say if Sociopaths harness their don't care attitude towards innovation & creativity they can be good for society. They can benefit society because they push forward innovation, new ideas without caring what others think of them, aka politics & even medicine (especially Surgeons). Our word is full of Sociopaths that benefit us daily but most are just normal people in our everyday life. They can still wreck havoc, break hearts, emotionally hurt people but usually aren't violent. Although if they're great at manipulation you may go whole life, living with a sociopath & never guess they are one. Sociopaths actually have the ability to get close with an inner circle & they end up caring about those people. Psychopaths well, they're is a different story. Both are scary though, because they have the ability to do great harm to numerous people without caring about the outcome. Think Dick Chney would be in that Sociopath category.
shareSociopaths are pretty numerous, so I'd say everyone has met one by the time they reach the age of 12. See the book, "The Sociopath Next Door." The fortunate thing is that most sociopaths don't become murderers. They become politicians, CEOs, ministers, teachers, etc. Their very flaws (lack of empathy and conscience) work to their advantage, especially in business and politics.
shareWatching it now. A true sociopath. Have any of you ever met one?
Just finished watching this one now. I believe an old friend of mine was/is one. Frightening! Great movie...
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
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I have a very much unwanted step-nephew whom I believe will one day be a serial killer. My brother left his real family to marry his mistress and she has three loser sons. One wants to be a meth dealer, one has a juvy record for dealing pot, but the youngest is the psycho. He won't eat anything but plain noodles with ketchup and when he gets constipated his mother, who's a witch herself, gives him MiraLax. He then poops his pants (and he's probably 13 by now. We've cut them out of our lives, but he was about 9 or 10 when my brother married this piece of garbage) and she leaves it for other people to clean up.
He's always threatening to kill people because "everyone is stupid." There's rumors that he's been caught torturing animals. He pulled a knife on my mom.
His mother, who's a drug addict herself - then again, so's my idiot brother, refuses to punish him when he does things wrong.
That kid is going to be a serial killer someday, I swear it. Unless his biological father finally gets custody of him and locks him in an asylum where the little monster belongs.
Jami J. Russell
http://www.jamisings.com/
Think Dick Chney would be in that Sociopath category.Ah, no .... that would be Barack Hussein Obama.
No.
shareAbsolutely not!
Donald Trump is a true sociopath!
I am formerly known as HillieBoliday....Member since May 2006
I am not in agreement with the statement about Mr. Cheney. You disrespect President Barack Obama.....and then quote scripture out of the Bible?
WOW!
"OOhhhooo....I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"
Jami, that's really creepy. He needs to stop now before he ends up murdering people! O.O
Drake is repetitive. He just raps the same thing over and over as if he is in an insane asylum! LOL!
Yes. There are several who are regular trolls on the boards. The anonymity allows them to express their psycho/socio-pathy to their heartless content without fear of reprisals.
And I AM being 100% serious about this.
I am formerly known as HillieBoliday....Member since May 2006
You are absolutely correct! There are an abundance of vermin/evil spirits hiding on the internet.
"OOhhhooo....I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"
I have met one online before. He was always twisting my words around to make it sound like I was saying something completely different than I meant. Then he would use his interpretation against me. He acted very uncomfortable when I talked about emotional subjects such as death, sometimes even going as far as to make a joke out of it. He was very manipulative and played lots of mind games. Looking back, I guess I was just so desperate for a friend that I explained away anything he said and did and let him get away with it.
shareSociopaths lack feelings and emotions..but not all are dangerous..you typically find these sociopaths in positions of power.
This little girl is a psychopath...no emotions or feelings but also has violent urges and the desire to kill others.
The two are different