who are psychopaths? can they harm people?
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Yes they are. All people are dangerous.The worst are people who you piss off. If you piss them off enough they will want to do you real harm. Or if you get close to them and they feel that you have pissed them off even when you didn’t intend to then they can get violent or stalker-ish or harm you in other ways.
People are normally killed or harmed by others who they are close to. Normally family. Second lover. Third someone in close proximity, friend, colleague. There are sexual predators in all forms as well. Most of them are not psychopaths. You would never know if someone was a psychopath anyway. You would have to know them really well.
in essence, it is not a psychopath thing, it is a human thing.
Psychopathy is widely recognized as a risk factor for violent behavior, but many psychopathic individuals refrain from antisocial or criminal acts. Understanding what leads these psychopaths to be “successful” has been a mystery. Psychopathic individuals are very prone to engaging in antisocial behaviors but findings suggest that some may actually be better able to inhibit these impulses than others. Although we don’t know exactly what precipitates this increase in conscientious impulse control over time, we do know that this does occur for individuals high in certain psychopathy traits who have been relatively more ‘successful’ than their peers.