you are dead on with criminals. their answer to everything is to hurt people. and the fact that their behaviour is going to obviously hurt themselves, never occurs to them. only people who don't see the results of criminals actions have sympathy for them.

it's the same with the selfish but not criminal. it's a kind of unconscious aggression against others; eg 'I can't just tell everyone 'to go to hell' so I'll always be late instead'. the idea that wherever they go, everyone soon hates them, might be because of their behaviour never occurs to them.
The Sock