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No that would actually be the definition of a sociopathic act. Psychopathy and sociopathy are actually outdated terms referring to modern antisocial personality disorder, which is primarily defined as a lack of respect for the feelings and rights of other people. So some you just described a situation in which you tried to justify feeling no emotions whatsoever in reaction to the pain of another living being, even though people do this quite often, is a insurance of sociopathic behavior. However, in yours and most people's cases, the occasional sociopathic act is not enough for a diagnosis. It has to be a pervasive general pattern of behavior for more than six weeks and not comorbid with another condition that better explains the behavior.

I realize this is a off topic post and apologize, but I wanted to use this opportunity to mediate this dispute with facts for anyone reading who doesn't know the standard DSM-5 descriptions of cluster B personality disorders. I'm actually defending you both in this case. You were both partially right and partially wrong. I hate seeing the term get used incorrectly by jelly and his supporters so much in this thread.