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I don't believe that sociopaths exist. Everyone has to have emotions deep down. They may be actors and liars and horrible people. But they all feel deep down inside. If they are evil it's because they cause others pain. I believe that evil is more likely to exist than a sociopath.

Because it's all outside isn't it? We see them from outside and we think that they can't feel that they can't have emotions. But we have no proof of that we have no way of knowing that they don't have emotions just like us. It's comforting is what it is. It's comforting to thinking that the people who do evil must be bad. They must not have emotions like we do. But they do. We turn around what the sociopaths think, they think that they are the only feeling people in the world, and that others don't' feel like them, aren't human lie them.

This is what mankind has thought throughout the ages. It's the Genocide mentality. It's what allows a good man, a family man, to walk into a village and shoot a girl his daughter's age in the face. It's not lack of emotion; it's just that he convinces himself that that person isn't like him. That little girl isn't human, not like he is. It's what allowed the Holocaust to happen.

And we take it and turn it upon the killer. We say that if a person can co something like that he must not be human. He must be a monster.

But I assure you that Hitler loved puppies or kittens or something every bit as much as you did. He wasn't cold inside; he was more than likely hot. From his speeches it seems he had too much emotion.

Even someone who is bad, like Mussolini, serves his country and can rightfully say he is only serving others. But the thing is, some of us realize that his need for power outweighs his service. Greed for power and the desire to make the world a better place are the only reasons anyone wants to join government. It's amazing how hard it is to tell those two things apart, since they are so very different. But the people who fill those rolls have made it hard to tell those apart. The ones who serve power have blurred the lines. It's not like serving others is very common, anyway. It's foreign to most people. Hell, it's foreign to me. I used to want to change the world. But I think it was more greed for power than really helping people.

Then I got a little taste of power, a little responsibility and I decided I didn't want it anymore. I'd rather just be left alone.

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