Amnesia Doesn't Scare Me...

[Bridge]

Killing someone with an axe is pretty grubby work. Depending on how hard and where you swing I guess it may not be instant gratification. Even if you enjoy killing people or even torturing people it is difficult work and I am fairly certain the majority wouldn't enjoy it. Just because you're a psycho doesn't mean you would be willing to decapitate someone with a spoon. I didn't mean to say EVERYBODY has an emotional response to it, but not all psychotic people are chaotic evil cardboard cutouts, most of them have their limits.

Also there are several recorded cases (none of which I can refer to or prove exist so don't bother) of people doing horrible deeds out of uncontrollable impulses and later, or even during, being deeply disturbed by them.

Psychopaths and psychotic people are two very different things. Psychotic people experiences things that aren't real, while psychopaths cannot respect human value. (I'm saying "cannot" instead of "will not" because psychopaths aren't capable of justification. You can ask a psychopath "Why did you do that?" and while he'd probably come up with something that sounds good (because he has seen that justification used before) it often won't make sense, or be good enough, because every justification seems equally just to a psychopath.)

While it's hard work to kill somebody, it won't ethically disturb a psychopath. He won't feel regret or guilt or shame over it. Some won't even fear getting caught.

While a psychopath can very much fake regret if he wants to, having uncontrollable impulses is a whole other matter. Psychopaths are in control when they kill, because they don't have the impulse to not do it.

Not every psychopath is a criminal. Some are even completely honest about being psychopaths, as they don't see any shame in it. I would classify psychopaths as evil, though. That's not my point with PDP, though, because I don't see psychopaths as enemies, but as handicapped people.

Apart from you taking my post completely out of context by splitting hairs over my usage of the words "psychopath" and "psychotic" interchangeably knowing full well I was referring to the same thing, this post falls apart because of one simple thing: no two people are exactly alike. There is no "sane" or "insane", but different shades of sanity. When one falls below what is considered the acceptable limit one is deemed insane. Murder or even theft are quite capable of disturbing a psychopath if his personality is not in accordance with that. Some people are just driven to it and do not condone their own actions at all. BTW, there is no such thing as evil. Psychopaths according to your definition believe what they're doing is good, so they cannot be evil.

Fair warning: If you begin your next post by completely dodging all of my arguments and targeting a minor semantic issue I will not reply because I don't want to waste my time on this if you don't want to cooperate.