It’s less “you probably know a burglar” and more “successful burglaries are probably 10-100x more common than you would think, if you based your prediction solely on visible evidence.”
The two that seem most obvious to me: well-behaved psychopaths (i.e. people who have little or no empathetic response but who have learned to follow the social rules anyway, for the sake of headache avoidance) and non-practicing pedophiles (i.e. people who are attracted to children but are zero percent interested in raping anyone) probably really actually are quite common.
It’s less “you probably know a burglar” and more “successful burglaries are probably 10-100x more common than you would think, if you based your prediction solely on visible evidence.”
The two that seem most obvious to me: well-behaved psychopaths (i.e. people who have little or no empathetic response but who have learned to follow the social rules anyway, for the sake of headache avoidance) and non-practicing pedophiles (i.e. people who are attracted to children but are zero percent interested in raping anyone) probably really actually are quite common.