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It is a scary story of a man involved in the drug trade who has no regard for any human being.
He said "The secret to his success lay in a diagnosis once given to him by a mental health specialist. I am a sociopath. Most of the time I have been on this Earth, I have had no regard for human life. In my world, that was an advantage. Inflicting pain and using fear were tools I used to get my way."
At the age of five he was learning this from his father, an old time mafia gangster. He as a boy internalized what he saw. "My dad always hit people with objects-a bat, brass knuckles, the end of his gun,His main philosophy of life was "Evil is stronger than good. If you need more power in a situation, pick the most evil way and you will come out on top."
Was he born this way? Can you learn evil? I don't know, but evil attracts evil. It is a scary part of life. People like this are a destructive part of society. It makes for great reading or a cult movie. But you would not want to know anyone like that. They will kill you for sport.
a sobering Monday morning thought
washed down with coffee
ray
2 comments:
Ha! These are the kind of people I like to write about. My latest WIP has a character (a chimera) that has a parasitic twin who would have been a sociopath had he lived on his own, hence the conflict in my story: an antagonist who is half normal and half sociopath.
There is a book called The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson. From it, you can determine if you or someone else has sociopathic tendencies. As it turns out, many of the investment bank CEOs involved in all the economic controversy are bonafied sociopaths. Makes sense. You don't have to be violent to be a sociopath, though they are definitely the scariest ones out there.
Nancy
Then you have a scary side too! Seriously, we as readers are drawn to a story about people like this. I remember a story I think by James Patterson where the villain would break all the bones in the body first before killing the victim! Shudder!!
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