"It is all about cruel evil psychopaths who love causing pain" – it isn't.
"If I can get a kid in to see Seven Psychopaths who then says, 'Oh, here's a film from South Korea,' then it's worthwhile.
"Many people say that comics are psychopaths," says the standup Jason Byrne, who should know what he's talking about after almost two decades in the business.
For Charlie not to have continued as it has always done would have been to give in to censorship by psychopaths, to admit that the right to free speech withered when faced with a Kalashnikov.
But the police do put away some seriously dangerous psychopaths, a lot of them, in fact, and the media has to take some of the blame, because they advertise the crimes with such relish, and the convictions, often, not at all.
Whether the theory truly tipped non-violent musers into killers, or whether it merely gave a pretext to psychopaths, simpletons and romantics to commit murders, is unclear.
WHAT makes people psychopaths is not an idle question.
Such specificity is often the result of evolution.Past work has established that psychopaths have normal levels of intelligence (they are only rarely Hannibal Lecter-like geniuses).
Psychopaths often shun psychiatrists, and, she notes: "A paranoid patient isn't going to consent to have a lot of people interviewing them".Her verdict on "As Good As It Gets", which stars Jack Nicholson, is rather positive.
In particular, the two researchers thought that psychopaths might not possess the instinctive grasp of social contracts the rules that govern obligations that other people have.
The boardroom, after all, is a desirable place to be and before the invention of prisons, even crime might often have paid.To shed some light on this question Elsa Ermer and Kent Kiehl of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, decided to probe psychopaths' moral sensibilities and their attitude to risk a little further.
