Missed the thoughts part of the post - Of course these two categories of people are symptomatic of mental illness - it is, after all, a very extreme personality type and one that is known to be both destructive to self and society, right? Is that not what defines mental illness, in one sense?

I cannot help but feel compassion for those who otherwise cannot feel anything for anything or anyone - what a messed up world they must live in, indeed, if they even KNOW it as such (which they don't)...