When you were a child, where boredom could actually get to be painful. Sociopaths experience that kind of … - Martha Stout

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I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

Martha Stout

When you were a child, where boredom could actually get to be painful. Sociopaths experience that kind of pain in boredom. And so to be alone, to have nobody to play the game with, can be painful. It's not exactly fear, it's a kind of pain.

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If you don't have a conscience, what is your behavior like? Apparently, if you don't have a conscience, if you don't really. . . love, then the only thing that's left for you is the game - it's about controlling things.

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Someone, or some group in George W. Bush administration, took 300 million people to war against their will, based on a very giant lie. Combined with the notion of winning, that is, to me, a horrendously scary situation.

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