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Irish_Dem

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22. Usually not.

Thu Feb 26, 2026, 08:25 PM

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Usually the people I talked with knew they were breaking laws/rules from an intellectual standpoint. But they did not feel these laws applied to them and they did not care
at all about the impact on others. They feel no empathy or guilt.
It is all about meeting their own needs for cruelty, revenge, money, power, control.

They see other people as objects, props, disposable items to be used and discarded.
Yes some psychopaths have boundaries in their own minds. Things they will not do.
Is that the question you are asking?

Hard to tell if the child you describe grew up and got on the right path.
Or was smoother now and using charm and deceit as he got older.

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