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Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the Worlds Most Precious Stones by Greg Campbell
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Cute title, interesting cover picture. I read this book with many "aha" moments, and eventually with a highlighter pen in one hand, as I recognised people and situations that suddenly made sense. If 4% of us are sociopaths, then many of us will have interacted with them. In the words of Stout "Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task" Sociopaths have no conscience.
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This was a true consciousness changing book for me. Must read if you want to know more about the less known aspects of the sociopath.
1 in 25 ordinary Americans secretly has no conscience and can do anything at all without feeling guilty. If that doesn’t give you a moment of pause I don’t know what will. Stout explores what is conscience and asks the question does a sociopath suffer from a mental disorder. She talks about how to recognize one and gives us 13 rules for dealing with sociopaths in everyday life.
When I look at the people in my life I realize that I have been lucky and the only sociopaths in my life have been on th ...more
When I look at the people in my life I realize that I have been lucky and the only sociopaths in my life have been on th ...more
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could be a fun witchhunt
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