Do sociopaths/psychopaths actually exist?!

You sound like a bucket of fun. Anyway, psychopaths and sociopaths are not emotionless. That is a common misconception. It is quite impossible to be emotionless.

They are unable to empathize with another human being. Psychopath is a broad, not medically recognized term that usually means a person with a mental illness that killed someone for no apparent reason. Sociopaths tend to be the serial killers and hardcore criminals we hear of. That does not mean all, or even most, of the sociopaths out there are criminals but there is a strong correlation. Sociopaths are unable to see anything through their victims eyes. It is all about them.

To a sociopath, killing someone does not seem a bad thing if it is going to produce a favorable result for them. Most know that it is not socially acceptable and don't. Others try to get away with it. They usually are unable to understand that it ends that persons life and instead can only see it gave them satisfaction to kill a person. Someone else getting angry, sad, happy, etc are completely not understandable to them. They often have the delusion that their entire world is created by them and they are the only real things in it. They also may suffer from delusions of grandiosity or persecution.

ADDITION: Actually they can be helped. They can go to therapy and that will reduce the lack of connection they have with society. I'm afraid that so far you fit a sociopath to a T. Sociopaths feel a lot of negative emotions like anger and depression. They also feel infatuation and lust quite often. They usually cannot understand love since they are unable to connect with another human being so how could they possibly love one? I think you need psychiatric help.

And you just said that YOU (emphasis on only focusing on your emotions) get hurt and want the person who hurt you either tortured or killed. The only thing stopping you is the fact that you may go to prison. That is not a very good reason. Most people would say because killing is a bad thing and that they don't want to take a human life. You on the other hand only focus on the punishments. That is very much like a sociopath.

ADDITION: Many sociopaths obsess over what others think of them. It is a part of an inflated ego. They see themselves as the most important thing in the universe so what the other people in it say about them is very important. Some of them may deem other people fake but that doesn't mean they don't want their egos stroked. Many sociopaths need to be complimented and become very angry if insulted.
You getting angry easy is yet again a sign of a sociopath. Wanting to do violence is like a sociopath.
Many sociopaths are regular church goers because the idea of God and religion fascinates them. They see people following this preacher at his every word and they want that power. The actual religion though is very hard for them to understand. They don't follow what it teaches and instead are just fascinated with the idea of it. They also will go to church because it is socially acceptable and sociopaths are all about being socially acceptable no matter how much they hate society.

YET ANOTHER ADDITION: Seldom crying is common for sociopaths. They do have sporadic outbreaks of emotion. Sociopaths are just as emotional as anyone else but it only applies to them. No one else. They often suppress their emotions because they learn at an early age they don't feel emotions the same way as others do. Also, they tend to avoid conflict just because they know that if they engage in it, they will get violent and may kill someone which could put them in jail.

LAST ADDITION: Sociopaths are nice more often than not. That is how they win people over. Remember I said that sociopaths like having their ego stroked? Well, what better way to get your ego stroked than to be nice to people so they will be nice to you? Sociopaths tend to be quiet. You can't relate to emotions. I've seen you say that several times. That is a sociopath. Most sociopaths do not like physical contact because they deem others inferior to them. Why touch an inferior being? Also they have a fear of authority for the exact reason you stated. They do not like being told what to do since they deem themselves better than others. Also, your reasons for not wanting to go to prison are all selfish ones. You have no concern over the people you may hurt to end up there. Please get help. You seem very much like a sociopath. That's it. I'm done. If you don't think you are a sociopath, there is really nothing I can do online. Good luck.

I think you're stretching the definition of a sociopath a bit. Sociopaths aren't utterly devoid of feelings; they just don't care how their actions affect other people or society as a whole. If you truly don't care at all about the emotions of others, then you are a sociopath. Your reluctance to admit it is a typical defense mechanism. You don't mind admitting you don't care, but you don't like to accept the idea that it's considered to be a disorder. If you're proud of who you are, you might as well face it. You're proud to be a sociopath.

You can not prove someone has no emotion. Emotion drives us whether we realize it or not. You have emotion, you just don't express it, there's a difference. You Enjoy making people feel like dirt and manipulating people, right there is emotion and what looks like to you as the lack of emotion. I used to be a nice girl, the "suzie sunshine" and somewhere along the lines that changed big time because I had to quit being emotional to help cope. sh!t happens.

You intrigue me very much. What you're saying turns me on. Anyway I'm not a psychologist but I'd guess you have some variance of what psychologists call personality disorders. Sociopaths are grouped into the 'personality disorder' category. But I agree that you're not a sociopath.

Sure they do. Our prisons are full of them. They care about their own interests, though. If you think they don't, try to take something away from them, without protest. They know the difference between right and wrong, alright. They just don't give a damn. That's how they wound up as social predators.

well, do YOU actually exist?
there's your answer

EDIT: ah, paranoid too, I see

They certainly exist for their victims.

I don't believe that it is a condition to be born with, but rather a decline.
We allow ourselves to accept something further and further from what is good and the end result is something akin to a sociopathic mindset.

There was an author (cannot recall who for the life of me, perhaps Patricia Cornwell) who did not agree with the death penalty until she studied criminals and became aware of their inability to go back to a sane condition.
Also, the serial killer Ted Bundy suggested that to find future and current serial killers, all one had to do was publicly show slasher/porno movies and the people who showed up would be those that had tendencies towards being psychopaths.

It's a decline from order to chaos, as with everything in this world.

EDIT:
Take joy in good things. And in truth.
I believe we were created by God, and though we are born into sin (missing perfection) we were still created for good things.
Feel free to e-mail me for questions, comments, etc.

Psychology is a slightly flunky science for a number of reasons.
For one their "disorders" are hardly ever very clear, two they change the descriptions frequently, and three they make sweeping generalizations to characterize people.

I mean I've heard people say psychopaths feel zero emotion, but that's more a statement than a fact. What psychopathy should be more correctly defined as is a categorey of people who have an abnormal lack of empathy and are prone to immoral behavior and conduct. This does not mean they don't have empathy, it means they have less of it (or perhaps none at all).

Now then, if one wanted to study the levels of "empathy" sociopaths have I'm sure there is a way to do it. I'm not a psychologist or a neuroscientist however but I'd guess there's a portion of the brain that controls and regulates "compassion" and "empathy". And perhaps in sociopaths, the reason they can't feel emotion (or have less of it) is because this region of the brain is not functioning properly or is defected.

The reason I'm making this guess is because I know there are things called "mirror neurons".
For example if you've watched TV, saw someone get kicked in the groin, and winced before then you have mirror neurons. They work. See mirror neurons help and allow you to connect with people by putting yourself into someone elses situation.

People with Autism however have far less of these mirror neurons.
That's why the autistic have a hard time relating to people because they're lacking an important "relation making" tool. Their mirror neurons aren't functioning.

Now this probably isn't connected with psychopathy.
However I'd wager that the reason psychopaths can't feel, or feel less, empathy is because they might be lacking "something" like mirror neurons (though probably something else).

That's just my guess, as I said I'm not qualified to answer you completely.