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White Collar Psychopaths

In your dealings with franchisors or business opportunities sellers, you may come across what Robert D. Hare PhD described his book "Without Conscience" as the "White-Collar Psychopath".

He describes them as "trust-mongers", who "having obtained our trust, ... betray it with stunning callousness."

Hare describes in detail a number of interesting cases.

But the one that is most interesting, is the case of a man who became the Man of the Year and member of the Republican Executive Committee in the small town in which he lived.

He decided to run for a position on the local school board, and a reporter then looked into his background.

The reporter found this. "Not only was the man a complete imposter, ..., the man had a long history of anticocial behavior, fraud, impersonation, and imprisonment."

What is the most remarkable fact here?

How did the local community react to his "outrageous program of deception"?

They offered him their sincere support, one of them comparing the subcriminal's intergrity with that of Abraham Linconln'. Having been completedly conned, the community found it impossible to conceive themselves as "suckers", as "there is no crime in the cynical American calender more humiliating than to be a sucker."

If you are buying a distributorship, business opportunity, and want to avoid humiliation, then pay an experienced franchise or business opportunties laweyrs to do the proper due diligence.

How much whould you pay to avoid being humilated by someone who is going to "betray your trust with stuning callousness." and having to live with that outcome for the rest of your life?

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Full post as published by Misleading Advertising Law on March 02, 2009 (boomark / email).