Conscience - the Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us

Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths among Us

In his book Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us, Robert D. Hare (1999) focuses on not only the famous psychopaths and the criminals who have made the news, but the people who walk among "normal" society every day - at the grocery store, the bank, and everywhere else. Many of these people are very low key. They are not physically violent, but they are emotionally and financially devastating to a large number of people because they have the ability to manipulate people much more easily than the average person could do - largely because they do not have any kind of conscience holding them back from the choices that they make (Hare, 1999). Without any conscience, they do not see right and wrong the same way...
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