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Or the mentally ill...
Which is really ironic if you consider sociopathy to be a mental illness.
Nah, because that's just Antisocial Personality Disorder, which basically boils down to trusting your own judgement over society's.
That can be very bad, or very good.
Like, Harriet Tubman put her own values over society's laws, so she broke a shit ton of laws with zero remorse. Hard to say she had a mental illness. But her actions we celebrate today, met a lot of the diagnosing criteria.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/antisocial-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20353928
It's just human variation, but it's likely incredibly undercounted because regardless of if the person is more on the "good" or "bad" side, they all think they have a better line of thinking than society. And fuck man. Take a look around.
Society as a whole isn't doing too hot lately, it's a pretty low bar to say you trust your own morals than society's.
I am not here to attack people with Antisocial Personality Disorder, but it's definitely not just 'trusting your own judgement over society's', it also " is a personality disorder defined by a chronic pattern of behaviour that disregards the rights and well-being of others." The 'societal judgment' they're in conflict with is often the rights and well-being of others. I have an ex with it, and they had an extremely difficult time up until their early 40's, when they did improve a bit. We're still not sure if that's ASPD decreasing over time, or them getting used to dealing with it.
Again though, this isn't to attack people with it (who will suffer far more at the hands of others than themselves) but to hand-wave it as 'trusting your own judgment over society's' is... not accurate. From your own link:
I say all of this as someone who lived with someone else with ASPD. The one that caused our breakup was "Aggression toward people and animals." as they hurt me and attempted to hurt our cat in order to hurt me emotionally. This was a reaction caused by PTSD from their truly traumatic childhood, but I'd appreciate it not boiled down to some sort of Chaotic Good interpretation.
That is one of the diagnosis criteria...
But it's not a checklist where you gotta score 100%.
And to keep the Harriet Tubman example, legally under society's laws she wasn't freeing people. At the time and place she was at she was stealing property from people, relatively expensive property, and in large amounts.
Most people's experience with someone diagnosed with ASPD are because they have the real bad ones in addition to the others, and someone without them would also almost never go see a shrink of their own free will, because they still have the other parts where they think (maybe rightfully) that they know more than everyone else.
This also skews what the medical community sees.
If someone doesn't give a fuck about others, they still may realize the benefit of social nicities and benefits from being part of a community.
This ain't an idea I just had, people have been talking about this undercount since way before we stopped using outdated terms like "sociopath", and that was decades ago.
There are people who legit do not care about any other person than themselves. This isn't a question of legality, but morality.
The question you have to ask is "who do these actions benefit the most?"
Harriet Tubman absolutely cared about other people, otherwise she wouldn't have done what she did to help free slaves or advocate for women's sufferage.
How much did Robin Hood personally benefit from stealing from the rich and giving to the poor? If he was truely selfish, wouldn't he have kept all the riches to himself? Sure, he got fame and notoriety, but I think we all know that riches = power, and it has always been that way ever since large civilzations began.
Also a counterpoint: Following the law does not make you just if the laws you follow are unjust laws, especially if they hurt other people. The obvious example here would be Nazi Germany. Nazis were just following orders, and anyone who rightfully resisted their regime were severely punished. Were the people who resisted bad people? Were the people who followed the law good people?
Now, take someone like Trump. Has he ever done something in his life to benefit another person over himself? Has he ever made a sacrifice in service to another person? I'm not counting tit-for-tat corrupt dealings here, but genuine actions of kindness. What about Elon or Zuckerberg?