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These forms of pathology are recognizable by most of society and many would agree that these people are horribly disordered and probably dangerous for life.
- Few would argue that mothers who drown their children like Susan Smith or Andrea Yates aren't terribly disordered.
- Those that shoot people they don't know or commit a drive by shooting like the Beltway Snipers Muhammad and Malvo in the Washington D.C. and Virginia areas clearly have pathological motives.
- Those that sexually abuse children and hide the sexual offender like the Catholic Church are the face of evil.
- Horrendous hate crimes that torture hundreds, thousands, or millions of people like war crimes or the Holocaust are pretty easy to figure that severe pathology is behind the motivation of hate like that.
- Or the deranged that break into homes to beat the elderly for money like Phillip Garrett who terrorized those in assisted living facilities have a notable bent of sheer brutality.
- Terrorists who commit the taking of hostages and psychological torture like the infamous Stockholm Bank Robbery (resulting in the term Stockholm Syndrome) are identifiable as probable psychopaths.
- The rapist who preys on the vulnerable or the type of rapist who rapes a wife in front of her own husband is overtly vile.
- Or the violent anti-socials that are frequent gang members or thugs like James Manley who murdered my father.
- Serial killers like Ted Bundy who raped and killed at least 36 women leave no doubt that he was the worst of the worst psychopaths.
- Or the ordering of killing a pregnant woman and her unborn child like schizophrenic/psychopathic Charlie Manson makes our blood run cold.
- Cult leaders who lead hundreds to death like Jim Jones remind us of the power and persuasion of pathology.
- Chronic re-offending domestic violence abusers like O.J. and Mike Tyson convince us that all DV is not treatable and some abuser brutality increases with each crime and are obviously disordered.
- The babbling grandiosity of narcissism as seen in Charlie Sheen reminds us that even the rich and famous carry and display their pack of pathology for all to see.
- Or the robbing of millions of dollars from thousands of people like Bernie Madoff reminds us that not all pathology is physically violent, some do it with panache and a tie on.