Thread:Mesektet/@comment-27729149-20150926000827/@comment-3581997-20150929235016

They choose to be. Complete Monster is an end result. A Complete Monster has NO conscience anymore. Characters, grow, change and adapt based on what happens to them, that is the basic principal of character as a concept. Just because someone is a monster doesn't mean they always were just that there is no going back once they have shattered any and all standards that might have applied to them. That is why Sociopath and Complete Monster are not necessarily the same thing. A Sociopath has no capacity to care about others a Complete Monster may have the capacity but hasn't exercised it in so long that those parts of their personality have atrophied.

Think of it this way. Let's assumed most people have a Jiminy Cricket character in their heads that stands for their conscience. A sociopath is born without his/her Jiminy Cricket, that doesn't automatic make them evil but it does mean they can never be good, they lack the ability to form those sorts of thoughts dedicated to morality, so they CAN become Complete Monsters easier, but that is not a forgone conclusion. However in the cases of non-sociopaths who become Complete Monsters they have neglected their Jiminy Cricket for so long or to such extremes, that he has died off. Complete Monster is an end result anyone can reach it. Abuse often inspires bitterness, get enough bitterness and it starts to eclipse conscience. Jiminy gets weaker and weaker the more that bitterness rules and eventually it will kill him off, that is the state when someone reaches Complete Monster levels.

If you go long enough without using a muscle it will grow so weak it will die, that same principal applies to conscience as well that state, not matter who it is reached is when someone is a Complete Monster.