Huh.
Sociopaths dont deal in self-delusion. They outright dont care one way or the other.
Yes-no: they don't desperately need to self-delude (no point, really: they're pretty certain about what they are in relation to others), but they can and will do so if it means making their act more convincing (but, again, it's often an act within an act): unlike with psychopathy, they can throw the delusions off at will (in theory: some don't fair so well doing that when the delusion centres on why they are so special
). It strongly depends on several aspects of their make-up... and, gender-roles they've been assigned or have assigned themselves, as well.
I suggest you bone up on the relative similarities and differences between the personality disorders... and, how sodding hard it is to tell them apart at the high-functioning ends of the spectrum, mate, before you accuse somebody else of not knowing anything and being out of their depths.
The sociopath and psychopath share an awful lot of aspects to their conditions when playing up there and do swapsies a lot with what they show... if only to confuse others.
You can only reliably tell them apart when one kind starts to unravel and becomes lost in their delusions.
There's a reason why you often need a committee of specialists to come to a conclusion about such cases as
Anders Breivik and
Ian Brady.
Note also, that I did not apologize for Koon. What I stated was the difference between their styles of ruthlessness, and explained why preferring one over the other was hardly a double standard.
Again: yes-no. Don't forget, all we see is SIU's careful presentation of both. Squint, and look at Aguero from another angle (like, say... Snake-Dude's... or his own sister's). Now, take a look at Rachel using the standard template for "misunderstood heroine" when the world is out to getcha, but you'll come good in the end. She actually ticks a fair few boxes... even if it's in her own head and mostly off-screen.
In another light (i.e. not the current Baam-centric one), she is admirable, however flawed.
This is what I love about ToG: you can flip the characters over and still get them to work in other roles, depending on how else you could tell the tale. That's the sign of solid character creation and plot-lines.
We are in a world of anti-villains and anti-heroes: and, they can easily swap over and shift about, depending on where they are in our understanding of them.
Even if somebody is made to play the Bond Villain at any point, I'm betting there'll be more to it: even Quant has his depths.
And, don't fall for the "Nice Guys", either: Lero-Ro will have some sins in his background... probably up there with Jinsung's. We just don't know about them, yet. <shrugs> And, Yuri: none of the Princesses are all sunshine and roses.
Edited by Euodiachloris, 11 February 2013 - 07:19 PM.
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