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The Hare PCL-R Psychopathy Checklist assesses twenty traits which seem to be evident in a person diagnosed as possibly psychopathic:
glib and superficial charm grandiose (exaggeratedly high) estimation of self need for stimulation pathological lying cunning and being manipulative lack of remorse or guilt shallow affect (superficial emotional responsiveness) callousness and lack of empathy parasitic lifestyle poor behavioural controls sexual promiscuity early behaviour problems lack of realistic long-term goals impulsivity irresponsibility failure to accept responsibility for own actions many short-term marital relationships juvenile delinquency revocation of conditional release criminal versatility Maybe it's just training.
Maybe it's just experience.
Maybe it's just bothering to focus on what they aren't, so that what they are becomes evident.
Maybe it takes a new crime and a new murderer to show us lay people just how right (or wrong) we were when we judged Susan Atkins as one.
Maybe it takes forty years and a knife attack on another soul, an ocean away, for us to clearly see the writing on the wall, on all those walls, forty years ago, right here in our own backyard.
Maybe it took the existence of Amanda Knox
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for me to clearly see and understand Susan Atkins
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