Posted by alexandra_k on October 6, 2015, at 20:50:50
In reply to Re: Shooters and Psychiatry, posted by baseball55 on October 6, 2015, at 20:41:47
> Studies show consistently that people with power or high status, even when that power or high status are given arbitrarily in psych experiments (think the Stanford Prison Experiment), are less compassionate and significantly less generous. Some studies find that people with power and wealth exhibit the characteristics of anti-socal personality disorder. The sociopathic nature of economic crimes is enabled by the cutthroat corporate culture where profits are valued above all and the tendency of high-level executives to "just follow orders" and take no individual responsibility for the human consequences of their actions.
With those studies... I do understand that 'most' people abused their power. But some of them didn't. Some of the Milgram experiment people didn't just follow orders, either.
I don't understand why we don't all actively promote those people (aka the good people) as leaders. Instead of promoting those who we think will further our interests (who will only turn on us when their interests come apart from our own).
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