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Study Shows People In Power Make Better Liars
oDDmON oUT writes "MSNBC is reporting that a Columbia Business School study shows those who hold power over others make better liars. According to one of the study's coauthors, 'It just doesn't hurt them as much to do it.' For the average liar, she said, the act of lying elicits negative emotions, physiological stress and the fear of getting caught in a lie. As a result, she added, liars will often send out cues that they are lying by doing things like fidgeting in a chair or changing the rate of their speech. But for the powerful, the impact is very different: 'Power, it seems, enhances the same emotional, cognitive, and physiological systems that lie-telling depletes. People with power enjoy positive emotions, increases in cognitive function, and physiological resilience such as lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol. Thus, holding power over others might make it easier for people to tell lies.'"
Somehow I think anybody in power would be able to give personal experiences on this. Be it a politician (as KiltedKnight suggested), power broker, agent, spy or executive.
Nothing new here, move along!
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The Republican party (as a generalization,) feeds on "this will hurt anyone who wants to get ahead in life." They make it seem like taxes that target the rich will hurt everyone, because it will cut down on the desire to be rich.
As far as we're pointing out stupid talking points for one party, we might as well point them out for both parties, and mention that "Tax cuts for the rich" when called such by democrats are not really tax cuts for the rich, but tax cuts for everybody. Politicians like to spin things, what do you expect?
I do agree with your 'graduated flat tax,' but I think there is also a benefit in everyone paying some taxes, even if it is just a dollar or two. People who pay taxes become more interested in what happens to their money: keeping people from paying taxes is a way to keep them out of government. We should have as many people involved as possible.
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Mod me down but you know that Obama is a fucking liar.
Actually that is the more or less the central belief of anarchy. (The intellectual kind, not the rioting in the streets kind.)
I do take issue with the term psychopathy. It is typical primate alpha behavior. Like it or not, this is our natural uncorrupted state.