Originally Posted by TheSquealer

It's always awesome watching a sociopath at work. Skilled manipulators. No sense of remorse, guilt, shame, regret and not possessing any other conscious based emotions that we all share and experience.

They remain largely invisible to us for two primary reasons.... first, we can't imagine it. We can't imagine not feeling guilt or remorse or shame etc. With that, For those who are normal for the most part, our brains just don't want to accept that others don't feel those things or experience those basic human emotions.

Secondly, like psychopaths, they have a lifetime of experience of faking emotions. They learn through trial and error to fake it. They have to fake it just to interact with others. They have to pretend to care. They have to pretend to feel a lot of things which normal people feel, otherwise people start to push them away, their sphere of influence shrinks and their ability to take advantage of others wanes. They learn to express the right emotions at the right times and that becomes a large part of the foundation they use to manipulate others. They learn to lie and manipulate it by being forced to day in and day out just to interact successfully with others. No better place to do your thing as a non-violent sociopath than in a biz full of dysfunctional people who love going in the opposite direction of everyone else. 10 people say the guy steals or stole from them, 10 other dysfunctional clowns chime in saying he's a "great guy".

Years later, this guy...who was one of the original forum con artists is still doing his thing. He does it well. He lies, cheats and steals and even gets others to come stick up for him. Masterful manipulation of simple minded and dysfunctional people and the textbook sociopathic attempts and playing the victim after the fact.

One defining trait of sociopaths is that they ALWAYS make a play for pity. they are ALWAYs the victim in every single scenario because they understand better than you how that simple tactic triggers a wide range of conscious based emotions in us (guilt, regret, embarrassment, shame etc), which they simply do not possess and which causes us to immediately back down and start seeing them as the victim and then start feeling sorry for them or feel we might be being too hard or unfair or even wrong.

Believing this fucking idiot is going to actually file a lawsuit against anyone is amusing. He's spent the last 10+ years borrowing 100 here, 200 there etc. In the list of top 10 entities who've lied and stole the most since 1998, he would likely fall right under Ibill and Epassport.

The odd part is that because he is sick in the head, he may pay you.... but he'll only pay you if he's shrewdly calculated that it will further some other personal interest and as history has proven anything, its to build trust so that he can screw someone else. But then again, when a person has no sense of guilt, remorse, shame, embarrassment and s so on,.. then he'll likely just find any weak rationalization not to pay, paint you as the villain, himself as the victim and move on to the next prey.