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How did he even manage to sleep knowing this was the job he did.
On piles of money, I'm sure.
dragons are a parable
With many beautiful ladies
Like that scene in Breaking Bad where Walt is laying on pallets of cash at the car wash.
Abstraction. These people are in such a different class compared to the average person that they basically don't associate with them, so they never see the consequence of their downright evil actions... up until a scorned man with nothing to lose makes them very clear very quickly.
Assassination is a Leaky Abstraction
Probably very easily. The people who make it to the top generally show more psychopathic tendencies.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2013/04/25/the-disturbing-link-between-psychopathy-and-leadership/
I wonder what's going to go through his familys minds when it all settles.
Imagine explaining to your kids why the internet is celebrating their father's death
The most defining trait of Sociopaths and Psychopaths is having no empathy, so for people like this the suffering of others, be it of their own making or not, has about as much emotional impact as the "suffering" of a leaf of lettuce when they eat it or of a piece of paper they crumple and thrown in the trashcan.
This also means that, amongst other things, they feel no guilt whatsoever (would you feel guilt from eating a leaf of lettuce?!) and will sleep like babies with the blood of thousands on their hands.
Sociopathy