Do you think HvB is a psychopath?
Fooling their families. Deception not only comes naturally to psychopaths, but also it’s a big part of the fun for them. They can convince their therapists or lawyers that they’re innocent people. They often present themselves as the real victims. When caught in a lie, they smoothly make up another story or change their narrative to incorporate the false information. Throughout the entire process, they remain more cool and collected than normal people do when they’re telling the truth. “Lying, deceiving, and manipulation are natural talents for psychopaths … When caught in a lie or challenged with the truth, they are seldom perplexed or embarrassed – they simply change their stories or attempt to rework the facts so that they appear to be consistent with the lie”.
Where they’re constantly punching in a new destination. Their constant pursuit of new goals relates both to their low impulse control and to their underlying lack of empathy. Robert Hare explains that psychopaths “have little resistance to temptation, and their transgressions elicit no guilt.
They sabotage their own futures and harm others in momentary flashes of anger. A psychopath’s anger may be intense, but it’s as shallow as his other emotions. That’s why a psychopath can kill his entire family and go out for a drink with his buddies only a few minutes later. Usually, psychopaths commit cold and calculated crimes. In other words, they don’t commit so-called “crimes of passion”, even when acting in the heat of the moment. “In general, psychopathic violence tends to be callous and cold-blooded, and more likely to be straightforward, uncomplicated, and businesslike than an expression of deep-seated distress or understandable precipitating factors. It lacks the ‘juice’ or powerful emotion that accompanies the violence of most other individuals”.
Psychopaths lack such incentives. Therapy can’t modify a psychopath’s underlying character: “Psychopaths are generally well satisfied with themselves and their inner landscape, bleak as it may seem to outside observers. They see nothing wrong with themselves, experience little personal distress, and find their behaviour rational, rewarding , and satisfying; they never look back with regret or forward with concern”.
Psychopaths function like ticking time bombs. Although nothing rattles psychopaths for long, they have poor behaviour controls. They can burst into violence at little or no provocation. Being guided by a sense of entitlement and double standards, they’re highly insensitive to the feelings of others and hypersensitive to their own. “Besides being impulsive – doing things on the spur of the moment – psychopaths are highly reactive to perceived insults or slights … But their outbursts, extreme as they may be, are generally short-lived, and they quickly resume acting as if nothing out of the ordinary has happened”.
From Dangerous Liaisons by Claudia Moscovici
Psychopaths have shallow emotional responses and do not react normally to deaths, injuries, or other events that would cause a deep negative response in others.
He certainly ticks the above boxes for me.
