
What brings people to betray their country?
In Benedict Arnold’s case it was a commission in the British Army, and 10,000 pounds (in modern currency, millions). There’s a certain mindset that makes someone crave money and position above everything else… Eric D. Lehman, author of Homegrown Terror: Benedict Arnold and the Burning of New London…spent time looking over Arnold’s letters and other first-hand accounts. “Some seemed to point to him ‘lacking feeling,’ i.e. sociopathic, but others showed him having too much feeling—he couldn’t control his […]
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