How to identify a sociopath / psychopath? Have you ever felt the urge to throw one of your group's leading lights and a principled and staunch man, under the bus? Do you notice you occasionally get caught up in a public lynch mobbing, which in hindsight was a less than admirable move? Have you ever been involved in a conversation where uncomfortablly powerful/ confronting questions are asked which challenge conventional thinking or the status quo, and instead of supporting the questioner, you tried to defend the indefensible until it was obvious the indefensible could no longer be defended? Is it possible that for you, the ends ("I/we are trying to save the world") justifies the means ("an evil is done now, under my watch")? Is it really too radical to suggest that instead of justifying an evil, it might be better to just say no? To support the staunch and principled man or woman in uncomfortable times? To identify and support humility and humanity, to display a little empathy? So you say you need the wood for what you're building, but how does heartlessness make a better world? Does justifying an evil now, in pursuance of a purportedly better world, make you just a little bit sociopathic? anon.