Motive of a Psychopath.

You might have heard about cold blooded criminals, who have no motive to kill and shows no remorse in killing or doing harm to others. In most cases they are called Psychopaths. You might picture psychopaths as ugly and scary but it is not like that. In most cases you cannot distinguish a psychopath from normal people.

A study shows that these psychopaths are born, not raised or victims of the situations that they face. These psychopaths has a smaller Prefrontal cortex(A part of brain which regulates behaviour, impulse control and planning) and a deformed Amygdala (A part of brain which gives us negative emotions like fear, guilt, and sadness).

There are three main Traits of Psychopaths

1) Fearless Dominance.

Since their Amygdala is deformed which gives them freedom from fear, anxiety or guilt. They can do anything without conscience, social consequences, authority figures or worrying about well being of others. They know the rules but don't care enough to obey it. They are charismatic and good at hiding their hard hearted self-assurance. They should not be mistaken as loner they do stand out because they are often liked by people because of charming, outgoing, charismatic and convincing nature. They lack empathy will not hesitate to hurt others.

2) Self-Centred Impulsivity.

Psychopaths need lot of stimulation that's why they go for extremities of the behaviour like starting fights, humiliating co-workers, torture animals, etc. Totally irresponsible, they do things because feel like it. They simply don't care what comes after.

3) Low Autonomic Arousal.

Psychopaths heart rate is lower. Their act of violence doesn't have rage at all. They get calmer with act of violence. Their physiology simply different than others.


This is why many argues that psychopaths are born not made by society they are born that way. Psychopathy is one of the most severe of all mental diseases. Though psychopaths are very dangerous and always commit heinous crime, they should be treated and handled properly.  Although they know what they are doing, but they do not know the reason behind that which means means rea(guilty mind) is completely absent in their act. Whatever crime or act they commit is due to their disease and not because of any guilty mind. This is a reason they never conceal their crime. They never show remorse of their action. There is not any sign of guilt or regret on their face whenever they are caught and they openly accept their criminal act without any repentant and sentiment. They always candidly accept their crime and desire to commit it again because of a strong urge to commit them which arises due to disease. 

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