Talk:Roman Torchwick/@comment-24.50.7.137-20150712170419/@comment-25555436-20150904133221

I'm kinda calling bullshit on that. Multiple psychopaths have shown that they care for someone and/or empathize with someone, even if with specific classes of people that have gone through similar events. In fact, said care sometimes even defines their MO.

And besides, this is psychology. A psycho is not incapable of caring about others or lacks empathy, that's just some traits of being a psycho. A man can be a psycho and not show those traits, instead showing other traits entirely.

Psychological conditions like personality disorders are just like diseases: they have simptoms, multiple simptoms, but none of those simptoms will appear all the time in someone who suffers a disorder. All that's required for one to be considered they have X is that they show a sufficient number of simptoms related to X, not that they show specific simptoms, especially since just about all the simptoms in X can also be present in Y.

So yes, some psychos can care about others and/or show/learn some empathy, even if it ends up twisted. In the same way, other psychos can't show nor learn one, the other, or both. Let's say there are 10 simptoms to be a psycho, you present 7 of them but lack of care and lack of empathy are not among the ones you present, you are still a psycho to modern science.