Can they feel love? Mercy?
Is their life is the most important thing for them?
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Sociopathy is, loosely defined, as a lack of empathy. The sociopath consistently shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others.
They still have many other normal emotions, like love or anger or fear, but what is missing (or at least greatly attenuated) is their concern for others. They may still show mercy or kindness, but they don’t really care about how that affects the target of the mercy/kindness – rather they do it for themselves and their own benefit.
They exist because psychological behavior is a spectrum, and there will always be people on that spectrum that have greater or lesser amounts of certain traits. If there are people that are incredibly empathetic, then there will be people less so.
As to what is most important to them, that will vary by every individual. The only unifying trait is that whatever that thing is, it won’t be focused on the feelings of others.
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