The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian and the Night the Titanic Was Lost

by Daniel Allen Butler

The crime of Stanley Lord was not that he may have ignored the Titanic’s signals, but that he unquestionably ignored someone’s cry for help.

Instead, circumstances unconsciously conspired to reveal that Stanley Lord was a man without conscience: Stanley Lord was a sociopath. A sociopath is defined as someone who displays a certain set of distinguishing characteristics, among them deceit, a tendency to be manipulative, a failure to plan ahead or anticipate consequences, aggressiveness, and—particularly relevant in the case of Stanley Lord—a reckless disregard for the safety of others, and a lack of remorse for any injury to others which might result from their actions or inactions.