These sociopaths,' he said. 'What do they feel like? Inside?'Isabel smiled. 'Unmoved,' she said. 'They feel unmoved. Look at a cat when it does something wrong. It looks quite unmoved. Cats are sociopaths, you see. It's their natural state.
In "The Sunday Philosophy Club," the characters explore the emotional states of sociopaths. A conversation reveals curiosity about what sociopaths experience internally. The perspective offered is that they are largely unaffected by emotions, similar to how a cat behaves when it misbehaves—indifferent and unmoved by its actions.
Isabel suggests that this emotional detachment is a natural condition, making a comparison between sociopaths and cats, which tend to display a lack of concern for their wrongdoings. This analogy illustrates the concept of being untroubled by one's own moral failings, highlighting a disconnection from typical emotional responses.
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