“Their callousness typically emerges in less dramatic, though still devastating, ways: parasitically bleeding other people of their possessions, savings, and dignity; aggressively doing and taking what they want; shamefully neglecting the physical and emotional welfare of their families; engaging in an unending series of casual, impersonal and trivial sexual relationships; and so forth.”
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Although some psychopaths are prone to violence, others can harm their victims in even more covert and psychologically appalling ways. They can engage in behavior that covers a wide range of emotional and interpersonal harm - from financially exploiting their victims to betraying and neglecting them. This is no less violent, according to Hare. It is simply a different form of violence.
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