The whole reptilian theme is symbolic mythology for psychopaths. I read two books in the last year by psychopath researchers, and the most common trait that uninformed people use to describe psychopaths is lizard eyes, fish eyes, or sometimes amphibian eyes, in the sense that their eyes lack emotion or animation. Basically, psychopaths are reptiles in mammal form. They're human mutants that lack the basic physical machinery that gives rise to empathy, which is a major neurological difference between mammals and reptiles. They are not evil in the same sense that good people might do something wrong. They are simply wired to pursue what they want without the capacity to consider the consequences to others. Both researchers I read claimed that there is no treatment for psychopaths, implying that we can only kill them, jail them, or enforce such punitive incentives against what they might do that they recalculate what rules they're willing to break.

The whole reptilian theme is symbolic mythology for psychopaths. I read two books in the last year by psychopath researchers, and the most common trait that uninformed people use to describe psychopaths is lizard eyes, fish eyes, or sometimes amphibian eyes, in the sense that their eyes lack emotion or animation. Basically, psychopaths are reptiles in mammal form. They're human mutants that lack the basic physical machinery that gives rise to empathy, which is a major neurological difference between mammals and reptiles. They are not evil in the same sense that good people might do something wrong. They are simply wired to pursue what they want without the capacity to consider the consequences to others.