# Psychopaths **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 17, 2014, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psychopaths/693392 "2014-07-17T19:56:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psychopaths/693392/6 "2014-07-17T20:46:44Z")
> [@Daz\_the\_burner\_Rush](#): > > Here’s a thought. > Is psychopathy a basic, unaltered human condition? > Please nobody answer who, after reading the word ‘psychopath’ thinks ‘mindless serial killers’. > These days many of us are aware that psychopaths walk among us. In fact, it has been said that 1 in every 100 of us are psychopaths, or at the very least have psychopathic traits. > Those traits can be; lack of empathy, lack of ability to follow o ‘life plan’, unreliability. > I was thinking that these so-called psychopathic traits, and others, are traits that i think people are probably generally born with, and that it is learned behaviour that subsequently causes these traits to diminish. > Even the lack of fear thing, I know that people who know about this stuff put a lot down to an abnormality in the amygdala, but if an individual was never civilized, could he/she be considered a pychopath? Please cite any of these so-called “facts” that you wish to discuss. For example, it has been said by _who_ that 1 in every 100 of us are psychopaths? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/psychopaths/693392)._