OliveOilMom wrote:
It doesn't upset me to hit one, but I know that they probably belong to someone and it would upset their owner if I were to hit the cat
A sociopath would not care about this either.
Personally I'd care more about the cat than the person who "owns" it (you evil b*astard!

) but I do think you possibly have a good point about getting an emotional response from something like killing in order to seek it out.
Still, I think it's a nonsense argument that just because someone doesn't get emotional responses they cannot be good.