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Is There a Difference Between a Psychopath and a Writer?

In highly emotional settings, people are more likely to be gullable than in other situations. And of course, then that means that if you're an artist creating a movie or writing a book, what you want to do is take advantage of the fact and make it compelling. You know, as i was reading a book vera, i got to thinking about how the usual suspects so takesadvantage of the fact that we have sympathy for verbal because he has a disability. It's difficult in our minds to see that some one who demands our sympathy might also be a psychopath. In some ways it requires a certain complexity o sort of holding these two opposing ideas simultaneously. That is so hard to

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