Hintjens speculates that psychopathy is not a disorder, but a maladaptation. No one becomes a psychopath just through trauma, which is the idea the psychopath is simply a broken person. Rather, it is always about survival. Hintjens doesn’t think you can be a little bit psychopathic. Whether you play the social game, or the cheater game, you must play to win. The psychopath is competing with other psychopaths, and with their victims. Is psychopathy a predatory skill set? And does this explain why psychopaths have no genuinely close and intimate social and personal relationships? What is Creator’s perspective?

This is a perceptive observation but an incomplete one. There is an important piece of the puzzle missing to the observer and the author falls into this trap, as does the mainstream, in not realizing trauma plays a huge role in the disconnection of the psychopath. But it is trauma that is not in the current life but often many other lives, all of which piles on and creates a huge karmic dilemma for that individual when they reincarnate and are faced with the burden of many lives of increasing wrongdoing perhaps, all of which will begin to drag them down and give them challenges. If they are fragile and in addition have spirit attachments working to further disconnect them from their higher self, and bully them in a deep part of their mind they are unable to connect to directly from a conscious level of perception, the stage will be set for a further undermining that will tip them over the edge, eventually. They will worsen through a diminished ability to feel their divinity, to receive divine inspiration, to have perceptible communication from the higher self with pricks of conscience to remind them of divine truth, and motivate them to stop and think about what they are doing and whether it is justified or might cause further difficulty, and so on. There is, typically, a long tortuous path leading to the eventual creation of a psychopath because this is a maladaptive state of advanced disconnection. To some extent, everyone suffers from a constraint placed in being aware of the divine realm. This was done to humanity long ago and created a basic vulnerability, making humans quite liable to being manipulated and not bouncing back as readily as would otherwise be the case. That vulnerability is enough to make humans, many times, sitting ducks who can be corrupted to become beyond the pale and join the ranks of the psychopaths who prey on others and carry out the work of the darkness much more than the light. So, much of what goes into creating a broken person, so to speak, is not on display but hidden deep within the mind of the sufferer. The mainstream lacks the ability to see this or monitor the ongoing dynamic of someone being bullied by savage spirits mocking them, tormenting them, humiliating and shaming them, and in the process hardening them and lowering their vibration to such an extent they are so distant from their higher self they are functionally on their own and will lack the resources to right their own ship. With no love to work with, people simply cannot recover from mistreatment on their own but will be maladaptive in some way or another, withdrawing and becoming a recluse at one extreme, or acting out with increasing brutality towards others as a way of coping with the inner conflicts and torment stirred up by having so much wounding and personal suffering and failure they reach a breaking point. It is quite typical for psychopaths to be manipulated by dark spirit meddler attachments and even extraterrestrial spirits targeting them or individuals they know, and so the psychopath will be used as a kind of weapon to attack fellow humans and spread the misery. This is a quite effective way to corrupt and diminish the whole of society because the psychopaths will more readily participate in violent crime, and crime of all kinds, and will embrace the more harsh and brutal solutions for societal difficulties, including going to war, with devastating consequences. Because they are loveless beings, they will readily act in a heartless manner to exploit others, to take and not give, and this leads to the predatory behavior, the need to win always, at whatever cost and through whatever means. For such a person, close personal relationships are not rewarding other than to groom servants, in effect, to have perhaps a sexual outlet or a life partner as a kind of social trophy they can display to make themselves look accomplished, but the relationship will often be quite uneven and not a happy one because there will be all take and no give, and without love as the currency, the friendship will be a make-work exercise quite shallow and unrewarding for both parties. This is why the psychopath will often be indifferent to their presumed loved ones; if they have a spouse and children, for example, they will be negligent, uncaring, and unduly harsh when they are inconvenienced personally, by the needs of their presumed loved ones.