Hintjens suggests that we have an incomplete view of the psychopath. The general assumption is that they are broken people, but he suggests that they are in fact human predators. “Psychopaths hunt other humans. They attack and capture them. They feed on their time, resources, power, and energy. They dispose of the remains. And they move on. Every relationship between a social human and a psychopath follows the same pattern. There seem to be no exceptions, no nice psychopaths. To be a psychopath is to be a predator.” What is Creator’s perspective?

This is getting to the heart of the matter quite powerfully. This is the reason that psychopaths are often quite savage in their treatment of others. Those who are functional and able to fit into society will still have times when they lose self-control because they have been crossed, they have been criticized, they have been ignored or neglected, and they view it as not a rejection but a maligning and betrayal of their presumed higher status and authority of power and control, and will seek revenge in the form of a punishment of some kind. Being empty and devoid of love, the seeking of power and enjoying its perceived advantages in gaining security that they cannot count on through love, leaves them with but a meager existence of exploiting others as a way of maintaining dominance. This brings reassurance that their power is intact and gives them the only foundation they have for enjoying life. It is a meager enjoyment at that, because they will have challenges and struggles all the way along in fitting in with people and getting people to be loyal to them. Most people who enjoy a normal ego strength and healthy self-image will not put up with the treatment they are given by a psychopath and will quickly withdraw from any such relationship. So the psychopath is left with whatever series of underlings they can cultivate and groom to be like servants who will put up with their shallow mistreatment, and may even believe in the superiority the psychopath projects wherever they go and be drawn to that power if they themselves are weak and vulnerable. This is why psychopaths often rise to the top of organizations, including many companies who end up with psychopaths as the chief executive officer. And this is true for many politicians and the heads of organizations of all kinds because the psychopaths are ruthless self-promoters and lack ethics and morality, and so are willing to be underhanded in backstabbing and sabotaging the careers of their competitors. They are often very clever manipulators and fool many, many people who just see them as quite powerful and effective and truly leaders who seem to be fearless as well as capable, but they are simply confusing fearlessness with strength because it is basically an act with little substance behind it. This makes psychopaths dangerous because, in the same way they will climb the rungs to power by stepping on those in their way, they will jealously guard their power once they attain it and will crush their opposition without compunction if their position of power and control is threatened in any way by a rival. This, indeed, is very animalistic behavior, much like an animal predator that will hunt its prey, kill it violently, and consume it without hesitation, and that, in essence, is the role of the psychopath in society. Their cleverness usually causes them to arrange the bloodbath to happen behind the scenes because they have learned that weaker people are squeamish and may not fully appreciate their power and the prowess they have to use it with maximum effectiveness and efficiency, from their perspective, but others will find it shocking and repugnant and this could create problems for the psychopath in getting away with their harsh treatment of others. So they cultivate the ability to be two-faced in having a public as well as a private persona that serves them. Because they lack a conscience, they can be ruthless and quite savage and this is their outstanding characteristic and will display it again and again in the ease with which they lash out to criticize in a very hurtful, condemnatory way that may not be called for, but to them is simply well-justified and deserved by someone doing things not to their liking. They will see it as only showing their own power and their sense of entitlement is quite extreme. They have no ability to see themselves objectively because they lack the emotions and the ability to perceive love and how their behavior departs from love in an extreme way.