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To: coug who wrote (9910)12/24/2006 12:33:55 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) of 51717
 
Toxic people, Coug. All you can do is stay away from them.

The intentional infliction of pain is a baffling concept to me, when life supplies enough sadness without our assisting it.

I am reading a book now about the internet serial killer, John E. Robinson. (I admit to a strange fascination with deviant minds but only by reading about them, not talking to them!) He was a true sociopath. You read and think, how can anyone be this smart and rational, and yet so totally without guilt or conscience or empathy.

I assume there is a bell curve of this kind of thing in the normal person. Most of us can recognize the darker parts of ourselves and we work to repress them, to conquer them. Others just go ahead and indulge them. The interesting part to me is that they justify the behavior with odd rationalizations. Robinson does the same thing; he feels no shame, no embarrassment when caught.

Some negative acting out is not terribly serious, as when people give in to the impulse to insult or call silly names, and I can only feel a great sadness for them if it becomes a habitual practice because the harm is much greater to their own souls than to their "victims".

Changing people is usually a lost cause. It's enough not to succumb to the temptation to become like them.
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