Guidelines for human behavior are essentially neutral - and waiting for a narrative to be fixed - and shouldn't aspire to be absolute. That said, all such laws that contain absolute qualifiers (e.g. always, all, never, etc.) are invalid constructs, never mind that they may be sociopathic (or empathic). Human beings are not meant to exhibit absolute behaviors in either direction, perfection or imperfection ... except perhaps in hyperbole and/or poetic license. GreeneLaw# 9 fails because it contains the absolute qualifier "never". Another important point is that guidelines are not absolute ... whereas guidelines promoted as laws are falsely absolute and incompatible with the mortal limits of human behavior. That said, the better inquiries wrt the so-called 48 laws of Power, are made with validity and invalidity in mind, not sociopathy or empathy. IMO. Pax .
. This is one of Greene's Laws I agree with (except for some of his sociopathic examples). I am voting No.
