Thread:Love Robin/@comment-31064368-20170116161938/@comment-366087-20170117005355

Exactly. And the mental health profession is still evolving with our understanding of such disorders.

And indeed, there is a larger population of "psychopaths" than most want to acknowledge. Many leaders of various societies and their militaries would register as such on applied tests. it's what makes them good and canny leaders. As Captain Kirk once proved in TOS and the fifth movie, he needed his evil side and "I need my pain!"

It is possibly even an evolutionary tool. Think about it, who at the dawn of humanity but the most crazy and insane would venture outside of caves to contend with vicious predators? Not saying they all *were*, seeing as we're not there to directly observe, but it checks all the appropriate boxes…

Thing is, it is *all* lumped together under the umbrella parent term of psychopathy. And if we professionals are still in varied and contradictory camps as to what comprises exactly what, then we here at Villains are best served also using the umbrella term for tagging while adding to the articles any needed distinctions.