Talk:Roman Torchwick/@comment-24.50.7.137-20150712170419/@comment-25555436-20150903040035

I personally have it understood that sociopaths prefer psychological or emotional pain, they like to break your mind and will instead of killing you or torturing you (physically), and usually being better at hiding their insanity. Intimidation, persuasion, blackmailing, abuse, among other things tend to be their prefered methods, while murder isn't always part of their MOs.

While psychopaths are more aggresive, more direct and prefer physical damage over inflicting emotional breakdowns. Unlike sociopaths, they can believe that some lives have some value, even if in a sense not like most normal people would think, and that often such twisted beliefs are what shapes their MOs.

Though I do admit, when generalized like Phantom explained it both things can be reasonably considered the same thing in different forms. It's like the difference between 2 different TVs.