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“Someone who lacks a sense of right and wrong,” he said.” He understands the difference but doesn’t see how it applies to him personally. He lacks empathy, doesn’t have any feeling for other people.” === “It doesn’t sound like you,” she said, ”except when you’re working. Is it possible to be a part-time sociopath?” === I’ve done some reading on the subject. Case histories, that sort of thing. The sociopaths they write about, almost all of them have the same three things in their childhood background. Setting fires, torturing animals, and wetting the bed.” === I remembered raking leaves when I was a kid. It was one of the things I did to make money.” “You want to make twenty bucks here and now, there’s a rake in the garage.” “What we used to do,” he remembered,” was rake them into a pile at the curb, and then burn them. It’s illegal nowadays, because of fire laws and air pollution, but back then it’s what you were supposed to do.”