Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, and if you think I'm saying something shocking by suggesting that > somebody is a psychopath, I'm not. Something like one in five of the > general population are psychopaths,
psychopaths according to DSM IV, or just some silly test from a magazine? > With training and/or a good dose of enlightened self-interest, most > psychopaths are perfectly capable of learning to not be selfish Yup, like everybody can become an olympic swimmer, or get a degree. Just work, and you'll make it. > Actually doing that harm is, or at least should be, although sadly > when we allow the psychopaths to make the rules, they tend to make > rules that allow themselves to prosper at our expense. Hmmmm... and probably one in three is paranoid? -- John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ I ploink googlegroups.com :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
