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In reply to the discussion: Ohio teens charged with murder over sandbag tossed from overpass [View all]haele
(15,632 posts)Sociopaths are extremely attractive to other teenagers because they project an air of confidence about themselves that most kids don't normally have.
These are the kids that pull wings off flies and duct-tape puppies and kittens, who grow up to be abusive and destructive shits to spouses, children, and anyone they feel they have power over. But at age 13 - 17, they're the "kings and queens" of high school.
Find the sociopath, charge him separately from the other kids.
Most teenagers are emotionally stupid and somewhat redeemable; but it's a 99% chance that the sociopath isn't. Sociopaths don't "grow out of it"; while psychopaths can fake it to act as functioning members within the relative ethics of society if they feel it's within their best interest to do so (I have known two - both doctors, for some odd reason), Sociopaths are to emotionally addicted to the emotional "high" of playing God among the rest of us to hold themselves in check.
Just my experience.
Haele