‘Ever since I went on a Bob Hare course I’ve believed that psychopaths are monsters,’ I said, ‘they’re just psychopaths, it’s what defines them, it’s what they are.’ I paused. ‘But isn’t Tony kind of a semi-psychopath? A grey area? Doesn’t his story prove that people in the middle shouldn’t necessarily be defined by their maddest edges?’ ‘I think that’s right,’ he replied. ‘Personally I don’t like the way Bob Hare talks about psychopaths almost as if they are a different species.’
