India, March 16 -- Killing another human being has psychological, psychical and psychiatric consequences for the killer: it dehumanizes him(her), renders him(her) unsociable, immoral, remorseless, and oftentimes a votary of gratuitous violence.

In other words, in most cases, he(she) becomes a psychopath.

But in the world of psychopathology and psychopaths, there are typologies. Consider Dr. Hannibal Lecter in the movie The Silence of the Lambs. A brilliant, erudite, and articulate killer, Dr. Lecter can perhaps be described as the creme de la creme of psychopaths.

In this spectrum of psychopaths and psychopathology, where does US Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth stand?

Probably in the lowest, autistic, and low-IQ rung.

But this i...