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It's not clear how often they're telling the truth,
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if ever or whether this is a way of escaping responsibility.
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There is a mental illness--
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There's an extreme,
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specific version of a personality disorder that revolves around violence,
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and this is known as "Antisocial personality disorder."
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It is--it used to be called moral insanity.
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Now it's often called psychopathy.
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Some people make a distinction between psychopath and sociopath.
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For the purposes here others don't, and for the purposes here
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I'm going to blend them into one category.
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Then I'll use the term "Psychopath."