Psychopathy Checklist

The Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) is a diagnostic tool used to rate a person’s psychopathic or antisocial tendencies. People who are psychopathic prey ruthlessly on others using charm, deceit, violence or other methods that allow them to get with they want.

In broad terms, the symptoms of psychopathy include: lack of a conscience or sense of guilt, lack of empathy, egocentricity, pathological lying, repeated violations of social norms, disregard for the law, shallow emotions, and a history of victimizing others. The twenty traits assessed by the PCL-R score are therefore:

On Animals

“An animal knows no revenge, nor mercy.”

– Midas Dekkers

Puerile [Adj.]

1. Childish; trifling; silly.
2. Characteristic of, or pertaining to, a boy or boys. (From the Latin puer, meaning ‘boy’.) See also its far more rare feminine equivalent: puellile.