The Importance Of Sociopathic Behavior

Sociopaths are people who do not feel empathy, emotion, or remorse. They are known for manipulating people, using them, controlling them, and treating them as objects. Many believe that society is becoming more and more sociopathic because we are numb to tragedy, the numbers of sociopaths are increasing, and we are even encouraging the behavior. It does seem, however, that each person cites a different reason for this. While each idea has facts that can prove them, there are many different reasons cited for the change that society has seen in recent years. In order to better understand why this is, we have to explore the reasons why and to explore if the sociopathic behavior is more tolerated in the modern world. Having too many people in our …show more content…
As mentioned before, we encourage the primal behavior for competition, but what about other behaviors? It has been proven that certain professions have higher rates of sociopaths. Lawyers, CEOs, police officers, salespersons, and media personalities are all in the top 10 list for having the most sociopaths, all of those have one thing in common; interacting with people on a daily basis. These professions are all careers that we look up to and admire and whenever something is shown in a positive light, we ignore the underlying flaws. This is where the behavior is encouraged, by ignoring the negative traits that are so common in these careers we encourage people to pursue them. CEOs have a sociopathy rate of 20%, that means that 1 in 5 CEOs are sociopaths. This is a very troubling statistic considering how many different people CEOs interact with and how much power they have. What is even more troubling is the fact that CEOs are often role models for people, this is creating the same problem that was previously stated, the negative traits are ignored in favor of the success. We advocate success and encourage everybody to strive for it, this is not what creates sociopaths, what creates sociopaths is how we encourage them to be successful. The motivation for success is often one of the following reasons; to have more money than those around you and show off, to be able to have people do your bidding and to be able to be proud of yourself. All of these reasons can be linked to sociopathic behavior in some way. Gloating your money and pride is arrogance and having people do your bidding for you is manipulation. These traits are encouraged for success and they encourage the sociopathic