Communication Confusion and Language

In conversation with some friends, I remarked that people with strong alpha drives tended to  be on the sociopathic side of the spectrum. This can be derived from first principles - to be a strong alpha, you basically have to beat down anybody and everybody who stands in your way to be top dog. This indicates a much lower degree of compassion in the alpha ( by nature ). This lack of compassion can be taken as a direct measure of degree of sociopathy. The counter argument was made that people like Gandhi and Martin Luther were strong leaders with quite the  opposite traits. They were "moral" leaders. They had no authority in the civic sense of any coercive power through a police or other arm of an organization. This led to the realization that the word leader can point to two very different phenomena - a leader with civic authority and a "leader" with moral authority. Because the word is the  same, people conflate two very different dynamics as being equal. This then led to the realization, that we do this in a number of different contexts with language. The same word can point to two (or more) very different things. And people may argue endlessly when one party is taking the word as pointing to a different dynamic than the other person.