The Importance of Instrumental Violence

Jay Parini: Psychopathic violence is very instrumental. It doesn't like fester and build up over years, then all of a sudden there's a lack of control. A sociopath might fly off the handle if you annoy them in a pub. If I was a psychopath and you happen to annoy me in a pub, I probably wouldn't do anything right there and then. But what I would do if I wanted to, for you outside with a knife in your shadows after everything had finished. So that's the difference between those two, calm and instrumental.

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