It does look like that some times; I’m not a corrupt evil bastard who doesn’t care about anyone who hasn’t been corporately personified, I’m just controlling my empathy so I can do what’s right for my corporate masters -- oops I mean the American People.

What was especially obvious with the Sotomayor hearings; the Republicans were adamant about empathy somehow being detrimental to the process of justice, as if ones conscience would get in the way of our monolithic theological pretend democracy legal system, and we must ensure that judges can check their conscience in at the door, or even better yet, not have a conscience at al, and then that way the judges will be able to sleep at night and always favor the law no mater how corrupt it becomes.

I agree, what ever show of love or empathy that comes from a psychopath is just that; a show. But they do however know what it is in the sense that it gives them the ability to masterfully mimic these feelings externally, so as they can blend in and manipulate their unsuspecting victims; there’s a term called “the mask of sanity” and on occasion the psychopath will show their true colors, but people not knowing the psychology behind it won’t easily pick up on the clues…