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Is Your Boss a Psychopath?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the phb-for-a-better-tomorrow dept.

Dogers writes "Robert Hare, creator of the Psychopathy Checklist, has recently been applying his test 'Is your boss a psychopath' to businessmen and has found some disturbing results. From the article: 'Why wouldn't we want to screen them? We screen police officers, teachers. Why not people who are going to handle billions of dollars?'. Citing Enron and Worldcom management as an example, it seems a reasonable argument. The same source also has a quiz (magazine produced it seems) which allows you to test your own boss, too!"

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  1. The political animal by ESR · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That quiz reads like an implicit description of ex-president Bill Clinton, the most consummate political animal of modern times. It's all there, the lying and manipulativelessness and obsessive self-reinvention and evasion of responsibility.

    I've been saying for years that the reason criminals as a population are so stupid is that the intelligent sociopaths go into politics, where the identical same behaviors are rewarded and encouraged. This quiz pretty much confirms that.

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  2. Bzzzt! by blackpaw · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Clinton had empathy. Perhaps he was the narcissist described in the article, but the US was better off for his presidency

    Whereas Bush - he's the poster child for psychopathy.

  3. thank you thank you thank you by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    libertarianism is nothing more than the same concept as selfishness dressed up in the trappings of philosophy, which i guess is supposed to make it respectable

    it doesn't

    it's still a cheap whore in an expensive dress

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  4. Re:Are your government leaders psychopaths? by revscat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Your claim that Bush is a psychopath is unconvincing. He may be to a certian extent, the question of how severe a psychopath he is remains unanswered.

    Left side of mouth: "He's not a psychopath." Right side of mouth: "He is a little bit of a psychopath."

    Umm... Ok.

    And by the way: not only did Clinton apologize, but he apologized ON NATIONAL TELEVISION for his mistake. Nor did Clinton start wars based on lies and propaganda. And etc., etc. I don't think Bush has apologized for anything, ever, including sending thousands of our soldiers to die in some godforsaken ME country for no fucking reason whatsoever.