Manipulation Dark Psychology to Manipulate and Control People

The Ends Vs The Means
One alternative to establishing clear ethical boundaries is to judge each case
completely on its merits. In this instance, there is more flexibility. In
particular, you may decide that any action can be justified, if the result is
positive enough to outweigh the means of achieving it.
There is a further issue, which even the most flexible moral gymnasts ought
to consider. Even if the ends justify the means, could those ends be
achieved with less wrongdoing?
Once again, it is not the place of the book to enforce a specific moral code.
However, even if your approach to ethics, in manipulation, is flexible,
would you lose anything by defining boundaries anyway? At least in that
case, you can recognize when you cross those boundaries, and it gives you a
prompt to address and justify your reasons for doing so.

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Intent and Unscrupulousness
This book has already partly addressed the issue of intent in manipulation.
Consider the child who screams; young children make a lot of decisions
based on emotion and instinct. The intent may not be to manipulate, but the
manipulation is still present.
If you have spent time around children, you may know that, when a child
hurts themselves, there is a pause before their reaction. In many cases, they
will look to their parent. If the parent’s reaction is shock, they may become
unsettled and start to cry; if the parent’s reaction is to remain calm, often the
child will remain calm themselves.
They are learning to navigate the world and their influence within it. It is
difficult to assign blame to the child for manipulative behavior, even when
you would find such behavior to be unimpressive or undesirable in an adult.
On the subject of adults, you may also differentiate between
unscrupulousness (willful disregard for morals or laws that stand in the way
of one’s goals) and a complete lack of knowledge of those boundaries.
Although both are potentially ethical breaches, the latter indicates a lack of
responsibility, while the former is an extreme form of egoism – total self-
interest.
In practice, this shouldn’t be a choice you’re able to make. Effective
manipulation should involve an analysis of your actions and, at the very
least, a reasonable estimate of their results. That means you’ll already have
the inform
Additionally making moral decisions, based on information and
consideration, will allow you to rest in the knowledge that you took
responsibility for your decision and actively understood the consequences.
It could prevent you from making a decision you live to regret.

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The Law
Despite the non-committal nature of this chapter, there is one aspect against
which this book advises you completely. That is breaking the law. Under no
circumstances is it recommended that you break the law and, if you suspect
that you are engaging in criminal activity, including fraud or another form
of illegal deception-based manipulation, you are advised to investigate the
law thoroughly and avoid any wrongdoing.
Ending up in jail is almost certainly not a way to achieve your goals and the
best way to avoid jail is to not break the law.

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