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Jackpine Needles
Posted by Jackpine Radical in General Discussion
Fri Aug 26th 2011, 01:25 PM
The usual instrument, the Hare Psychopathy Checklist (Revised), was designed to assess psychopathy in "street criminals," and cannot assess the level of pathology in likes of the evil people on Wall Street and in the corporate boardrooms, who differ from street psychopaths in several ways, the most prominent being their better impulse control and ability to defer gratification, which 1) permit them to make and enact conscienceless, heartless and clever long-term plans and 2) make them thereby all the more destructive to society.

Milton Friedman elevated this kind of psychopathy into the Free Market Doctrine, daring to make the incredible claim that the only legitimate function for a corporate "person" is self-enrichment at the expense of all others.

Somehow, I don't see any of the foundations created by the Überreich families financing any research to develop such a scale.
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