Haven’t read the story, but your description makes me think the moral is: “the greatest risk for a psychopath is to meet another psychopath”.
And why people like it? I guess reading about successful psychopaths is kinda exciting (makes us imagine that we might achieve great success if only we could get rid of some our fears), on the other hand the protagonist gets punished at the end which prevents an outrage that would have happened otherwise, but the punishment is delivered by another psychopath so it doesn’t ruin the atmosphere of the story.
Haven’t read the story, but your description makes me think the moral is: “the greatest risk for a psychopath is to meet another psychopath”.
And why people like it? I guess reading about successful psychopaths is kinda exciting (makes us imagine that we might achieve great success if only we could get rid of some our fears), on the other hand the protagonist gets punished at the end which prevents an outrage that would have happened otherwise, but the punishment is delivered by another psychopath so it doesn’t ruin the atmosphere of the story.