What Makes A Sociopath?

Is cheating and murder analogous? Is it the adrenaline rush of possibly getting caught? Maybe it’s like a drug once you start it you can’t stop. The legal definition of a serial killer is someone who has killed at least three people in a matter of thirty days. All serial killers are psychopaths and sociopaths, but be that as it may not all sociopaths and psychopaths are killers. To know a killer we have to get into the mindset of one. Nevertheless, the question that still stands is what makes a serial killer?
The dictionary definition of a serial killer is a person who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable pattern (Oxford). What is a sociopath? A sociopath is a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience ( Dictionary). What is a psychopath? A psychopath is a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc (Dictionary).

Moreover, the differences and similarities of the two are limited. “Both are antisocial, both lack empathy. The difference is that sociopaths might have the ability to feel weak empathy for what their actions are doing to people. They just don't care enough to stop. Psychopaths have no regard for others, and feel no empathy for what they’re doing “ (Stagner). The question that people disagree over happens to be whether killers are born or made; notwithstanding, this opens up the Nature vs Nurture argument in psychology. Nature vs Nurture is exactly what it sounds like. It’s basically the assumption that either our development is already established in our DNA or it’s the environment that changes how we