How can you tell a Sociopath from a brainwashed person?

[patrice]

6. I don't know how you could tell at a high level. On a personal level, the hallmark of a sociopath

would be dishonesty, which would be hard to distinguish from a brainwashed person, because the brainwashed would just repeat lies not caring whether they are true or not, not even knowing, because s/he doesn't think. It's all on automatic for the brainwashed. While a sociopath is also programmed automatically by their dysfunction, they may have some awareness of what they are doing, lying and hurting people, but there's ALWAYS a justification, a "reason", that ALWAYS serves themselves in one way or another. Even when it appears to be associated with some "great cause", that too is about self-aggrandizement, or at least relatively temporary ego-inflation.