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Is Your Boss a Psychopath?
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!"
In America, I'd say alot of us are psychopaths. How many of us actually care about people? We don't support universal healthcare, we laugh while people in Africa are dying of AIDS and starving to death, and we like war. I think its safe to say that if you are in America, you'd be better off being a psychopath than not being one.
Ignoring that you claim to have some deep understanding of the way he thinks, what if he was so abused in his own life that he doesn't really understand regret? What if his actions are the natural result of the experiences of his life?
I'm not arguing that he should be free, but it is possible for someone to think a similar way, yet not ever hurt anyone.
> Despite your personal penchant for violence the death penalty is a bad idea.
Despite your lack of will, soft heart, and terrorist intentions, the death penalty is a good idea. (Hey, you're making shit up about people who are on one side of one topic you happen to oppose, why can't I?)
The original poster was making a well-known critique of evolutionary just-so stories. I've made it myself, and never felt required to give attribution (as he has done in a follow-up post.) His point stands on its own, and does not require any authority to back it up.
Replacing "stories" with "theories" won't do, because a story is not a theory, and a theory is not a story. If that replacement were made the post would be about something different.
Non-predictive just-so stories are the bane of evolutionary biology, and especially evolutionary psychology, which is viewed by some serious researchers (myself included) as hardly more than a collection of such unjustified yet somehow plausible hand-wavings:
http://www.obgyn.net/newsheadlines/headline_medic
Blasphemy is a human right. Blasphemophobia kills.
First, answer this: are you a Christian? If I assumed wrong I'll take responsiblity for it. My assumption is certainly not unwarranted since you argue like a condescending Christian, and I have argued with many, many condescending Christians. If you aren't a Christian, then why in the world are you discussing this with me? Are you a cruel person merely looking for someone to berate? I have specific goals in mind when I seek to counter Christianity, and cruelty is nowhere on my list of priorities. The questions in this paragraph are not rhetorical.
Second, the ad hominem arguments are ineffective and have been ignored. Please back off the personal attacks and return to the issues.
Third, I will respond to the points you made.
I'll ignore your failing to notice that I was speaking in the present tense and your quote is thereby irrelevant.
It is your "speaking in the present tense" which bears no relevance. The Christian god certainly *did* strike down sinners at the moment of sin. The fact that he does not do so now leaves you in the position of explaining why I could escape with graver sins and why the allegedly unchanging god would change his mind about an instant death policy.
The rules changed since the old testament.
The Christian god does not change. Explain. Did the perfect, omniscient god create rules that failed? Explain.
No,
Yes. The Christian god (I'll call it "your" god if you confirm that you are a Christian) killed for far less than I did. I already showed that Herod was killed for not praising god in Acts 12:23. The Christian god killed scores of children and infants for merely belonging to the wrong primitive tribe of people. The Christian god killed forty-two children for mocking one of his prophets (2 Kings 2:23-24). If you agree that it is just for me to claim to be god (I am Jesus Christ, bow down and worship me!) and survive the wrath of the Christian god, then explain why it is also just that children be killed by the Christian god for lesser crimes in light of the fact that scripture calls the Christian god just.
I notice that you failed to provide me with the sequence of events on the first Easter Sunday. Let me provide you with an easier challenge: how must I be saved? Please cite scripture to back up your point.
I don't make the rules. I just make fun of them.