The Sociopath Next Door Book Report

Martha Stout would describe a sociopath as someone who has no empathy for another person, has no conscience, and does not feel guilt. In other words they lack moral reasoning, “Moral reasoning is the thought process that attends conscience and helps it decide what to do” (Stout, p.171). In the model for morality and moral development, made by Lawrence Kohlberg, these individual would belong to Level 1, that’s when moral issues are approached from the perspective of self-interest Sociopaths are commonly known to be criminals or have criminal characteristics, which isn't always the case, but can also be described as ethical egoism, which states, “we should act from self-interest—that our motivation for moral behavior should be our own rationally derived interests” (Williams & Arrigo, p.103). In this reading I would argue …show more content…
Wilms seemed to be manipulative as well, he persuaded his mother to let him drop out of high school, his mother knew that if she kept forcing him to go it would continue to be a fight, so they arranged a deal that if he can make money he wouldn't have to continue going. Jesse Wilms has the characteristics of always wanting to win and stay on top. Like in The Sociopath Next Door book, he has a lot of similarity to the character Skip who’s a businessman that has desire of always winning, and wanting to run the world. Willms, just like Skip, lacked empathy for people, Wilms in one hand is scamming people with false advertisement, and selling them pirated software devices, “ Willms defrauded consumers of some $467 million by enticing them to sign up for “risk free” product trials and then billing their cards recurring fees for a litany of automatically enrolled services they hadn’t noticed in the fine print.” (Taylor, p.2), while Skip is hurting people along the way like the ladies, for example, who have reported having trouble working with Skip because of sexual harassment