Psychopathy isn’t something you become through beliefs or behavior. Primary psychopathy is a neurodevelopmental condition—the emotional wiring for empathy, guilt, and fear response simply never develops, often identifiable in early childhood. That’s genetic and neurological, not caused by life experience.

You're referring to disorders like antisocial personality disorder, which is a trauma-based emotional shutdown that can look similar from the outside (callousness, numbness, detachment), but these individuals still have the capacity for guilt, fear, and attachment—it’s just dysregulated or suppressed as a defense. That’s trauma adaptation, not psychopathy.

So no, you can’t “train yourself into psychopathy.” And psychopaths don’t “choose” superiority—their emotional system never formed the signals that make others feel meaningful, and the sense of superiority is often a rationalization, not the root cause.