I'm still trying to figure out why people do bad things.

[womanofthehills]

8. They are psychopaths and are devoid of empathy

Some studies say one or two percent of the population are psychopaths- while 16% to 25% of those in prison are.

So, here in US we are probably living amongst 4 million psychopaths.

Some researchers believe some people are born psychopaths as their parents saw the behavior in toddlers - hurting pets and siblings.

There is a good book “The Psychopath Next Door” - I read it when we had a psychopath in our neighborhood. My psycho neighbor told me he would leave items in people’s yards so they would know he was there - he was a potter - so he would leave his pot chards in your yard (way out in the country) - he left a noose in someone’s tree and after he told me how he could ruin people’s wells, I put a locked box over my well.