We know that psychopathy has high heritability. We also know that the great majority of psychopaths who end up in jail were also abused as children. While psychopathy might well be correlated will poor parenting, there have to be a significant number of psychopaths who were not abused as children, and did not end up in jail. We do indeed observe quite a few of these — enough to know some professions they tend to end up in (surgery, special forces, the law, management). They’re also pretty strongly motivated to not let the general public figure out that they’re psychopaths, so I agree: I strongly suspect a lot of them are managing to pass as non-psychopathic. Indeed, I’m reasonably sure I’ve met some.
We know that psychopathy has high heritability. We also know that the great majority of psychopaths who end up in jail were also abused as children. While psychopathy might well be correlated will poor parenting, there have to be a significant number of psychopaths who were not abused as children, and did not end up in jail. We do indeed observe quite a few of these — enough to know some professions they tend to end up in (surgery, special forces, the law, management). They’re also pretty strongly motivated to not let the general public figure out that they’re psychopaths, so I agree: I strongly suspect a lot of them are managing to pass as non-psychopathic. Indeed, I’m reasonably sure I’ve met some.