Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-28522425-20170212060313/@comment-25936766-20170214154555

Arkantos95 wrote: Eh, children are pretty much sociopaths. With a dad like Jacques and a practiacallly absent alcoholic for a mother it's no suprprise Whitely didn't move very far from that. NO. Children are not sociopaths. They are ignorant masses of dumbness whose emotions come and go very fast. They have no idea what's good or bad and their level of care is miniscule.

A sociopath:

1) Lacks empathy and consciousness. They do things because they want, disregarding social and moral norms, and have no qualms about the method they use. Eating noodles and killing someone are no different for them emotionally.

2) Big liars and manipulators. Great at faking emotions and feigning innocence.

3) Pathological need for stimulation. Due to the incapability of empathizing, caring about others, sociopaths tend to see the world as boring. And as such, they tend to do "thrill-seeking" activities to alliviate that. This can go from playing videogames or gambling or having sex all the time....or performing criminal activities of varying grades of severity. This also makes them have poor impulse control in response to inconviniences and irritation.

4) Extremely prideful and vain, regardless of whatever others think of them. As a result, they also refuse to change themselves if their actions end up in "failure", and pretty much always refuse to take responsibility as well.

5) Shallow relationships. They can't form deep emotional attachments to other people, and since they are compulsive liars, it leads to their relationships being insincere and shallow. They don't care about the person, but rather more about the manipulation of that person, and can easily abandon that person without hesitation or regret if they feel like it.

Whitley, at most, only showed part of the 2nd trait: Faking emotions. And he's still missing the rest. The most he could have besides that is the 5th trait, and we don't know enough about his relationships (from his PoV) to say.