Living without a soul

In a previous article, I commented my belief that zombies are soul-less creatures, most of which are dead bodies re-animated. I also said that we see many living people behaving as though they are soul-less but they are alive and I called and compared them to "living" zombies.

Is that accurate though?

Is there a class or type of "monster" that involves living people having had their souls removed or lost from them?

I referenced the people out there who fit the description. People who brutalize and enact extreme violence on others to fulfill some 'need' within them. Something inside them that demands a blood sacrifice.

Not only does it demand the violence, but it feels no remorse for it. It only knows that for self survival, to avoid being locked up or killed themselves for such actions, they must hide their actions.

Is the loss of the soul in these people something that happens to them as a result of super-natural activity? For example, for those who believe in demon activity and possession, could these people be victims of demons stealing their souls, left to wander and behave in ways no human with a soul would?

Are these people, or some of them, people who through some cosmic 'accident' born without a soul? The flesh is born, but the soul is not within it to begin with. Going through life looking into the world of those with souls as a stranger looking in through a plate glass window, always from the outside.

Perhaps some of them are people who gave their soul away, thinking they could make a 'deal with the devil' so to speak, and it cost them more than they ever thought it might. When the devil or demon said it wanted their soul in trade, they didn't realize it meant immediately.