"Psychopathic criminals have empathy switch. Psychopaths do not lack empathy, rather they can switch it on at will, according to new research. Placed in a brain scanner, psychopathic criminals watched videos of one person hurting another and were asked to empathise with the individual in pain"-Google I tend to think that it is true to some extend but not everyone is born normal. Some people have a different way than others but not everyone can empathise and feel the pain as the quote says above.