• SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com
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    1 year ago

    I completely agree though with a caveat. I can’t imagine a just way we would completely eliminate people like Putin.

    You institutionalize them instead of giving them the keys to castels. Vikings turned their psychopaths into their most vicious fighters and isolated them from the rest, we decided to put them into positions of power both goepolitically and economically, then glorified them and it’s now killing us. Before that psychopaths have been described and usually killed off on the spot. If we ever get to be a space fairing civilization it might be smart to utilize them as resource allocators on multi generation ships as their lack of empathy could actually benefit the survival of the whole in those situations but not when we allow them to use accumulation of wealth as their tool as it drains everyone’s resources.

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      1 year ago

      That is a lot to unpack, but I think you definitely have a few good ideas.

      as their lack of empathy could actually benefit the survival of the whole in those situations

      This in particular is an interesting idea. Would be interesting to see what “good” a “psycopath” could do within certain limits.

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        1 year ago

        This in particular is an interesting idea. Would be interesting to see what “good” a “psycopath” could do within certain limits.

        There are definitely many avenues in which they could excell at. I mean decisions which need complete objectivity maybe something they excell at consulting for where as if you allow them access to gaining unmitigated power your in for a bad time as we see today.

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      1 year ago

      Before that psychopaths have been described and usually killed off on the spot.

      What a naive misreading of history. What mythical era do you think this happened in?

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        1 year ago

        Are you stupid? You know The Unscrupulous Man described in Ancient Greece? Countless times throughout early history they are frequently described based on their personality types and ways to “deal” with them…