[spankalib]

The quickest way to spot a sociopath is to trust your gut.
Most of the time, there’s no “there” there. It’s missing in the eyes.

They don’t come with a blinking “S” on their foreheads.

A book, “The Gift of Fear” discusses this.

The reason they seek control over others is because they cannot control themselves. They are dominated and subsumed by compulsion.

We’ve come a long way from our founding. Great men served out of a sense of duty, “payback” for the great and free land that was recently won.
Now, a gubmint job is for “me” (excepting our fine FReepers who possess courage and character - your posts make me sad).
It’s all about the bennies and the perks. Cushy retirement.
It’s magical thinking -
where no moral duty is owed to the payor(s), money is just magically “there”.

[txhurl]

The quickest way to spot a sociopath is to trust your gut.
Most of the time, there’s no “there” there. It’s missing in the eyes.

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Do you mean their eyes are ‘dead’ while they ‘work’ until they’re reminded to look up and start the charm up again?

And their eyes only sparkle when something bad happens to someone in their workplace periphery? I’m starting to worry there are way more sociopaths in America than I thought.

[Savage Beast]

Excellent again, Sp.!

I particularly like this:

"The quickest way to spot a sociopath is to trust your gut. Most of the time, there’s no “there” there. It’s missing in the eyes."

I grew up with one of these, and you can be sure I kept silent!