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Kudos to Salon.com for giving us this thorough analysis of what it means to be greedy and cruel:
The dark lesson of Bernie Madoff
The financier ripped off his lifelong friends and clients with callous precision. He should be a case study of human cruelty.
"If Madoff's mirror neuron system appears clinically intact, and mirror neurons are key to the development of empathy, what allowed him to muster the callous indifference to ruin so many friends and associates? The obvious candidate would be something awry in the emotional centers and empathy circuitry that allow each of us to feel another's pain and suffering."
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