As I look into these things more, there seems to be an overlap with narcissists, sociopaths and pathological liars. Of course, there are varying degrees of severity, with some able to change, but some never changing and ending up alone when everyone's had enough of them.

The fact that I can see why people would want to feel superior enough to get away with behaving that way seems to hint that we all have a little of it potentially in us and what separates us is whether we are able to reign it in or not.

My chicken flock comes to mind quite often in these circumstances. They run on the pure instinct to be higher up the pecking order and the only thing that separates us from them is that some of us have the capacity to be aware how this adversely affects others. I'd say it's our intelligence that separates us from animals, but sometimes that's not always apparent! 😆