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Originally Posted by Napoleon14 
And the number of hitchhikers in the area will suddenly start dropping.
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Probably nothing that dramatic. People will just wonder why their broker doesn't seem to care about their losses. Or co-workers won't be able to understand why the information they're getting from him doesn't seem to mesh with what they later discover to be the truth, even though he gained no benefit from lying. Perhaps a wife will grow frustrated with her husband's inabiilty to empathize with her or their children, even though he's superficially charming and says all the right things.
Psychopaths/sociopaths come in all shapes and sizes. Animal abuse is a bad, bad warning sign, but it doesn't necessarily continue. But, if the kid has a violent streak that doesn't adapt over time into something less overtly destructive, we're going to see some bodies down the road.
They're still looking for an effective treatment, by the way. At this point, I think the psychiatric/psychology community has basically concluded that one probably doesn't exist.