Politician = Successful Psychopath
Q: What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath? A: None
Jason Bennetto Crime Correspondent
Tuesday 03 September 1996 23:02 BST
Politicians and stockbrokers share many of the same characteristics as criminal psychopaths. The only difference is that career high-flyers usually stay within the law. Some could be defined as “successful psychopaths”, according to Lisa Marshall, a psychologist at Glasgow’s Caledonian University.
In a three-year research project that involved interviewing 105 long- term offenders in Scottish prisons, she discovered that upbringing appeared to be an important factor in whether a child became a psychopath, as well as genetic make-up.
To discover which offenders were psychopaths she questioned them and compared their answers to a widely used list of 20 characteristics of a psychopath, the annual conference of the British Psychological Society’s criminological and legal division were told. To be considered a psychopath, they needed to display a number of the 20 core characteristics. Ms Marshall added that people in some high-powered careers, such as stockbroking and politics – she did not rule out journalists – had enough of the 20 characteristics to be defined as psychopathic.
She said: “Successful psychopaths included people with careers such as stockbrokers, where a lot of action was happening and where they had a lot of power. “They have to be quite cold and callous. You could say a politician. [They] might be in control and have power. They are risk-takers.They have the characteristics of psychopaths but without the criminal intent.”
She added that psychopaths made good fraudsters.
From The Independent, here.
R’ Yaakov Shapiro’s Site’s List of Anti-Zionist Quotes – One Comment
The website “True Torah Jews” is now TorahJews.org. (I guess they feel they are winning.)
They have a section called “Rabbinic Quotes“. They of course foolishly quote Torah sages throughout the ages (mostly far before all the events which overturned the Oaths). That’s like quoting testimonies a woman is unmarried given before the marriage came to pass.
One particularly ridiculous distortion is the page for Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, author of Ohr Somayach. The humble editors of this collection of rabbinic quotes (ostensibly just trying to make the rabbis’ voices heard!) bring 2 innocuous quotes from the Meshech Chochma but somehow forget to mention the well-known letter by Rabbi Meir Simcha after the San Remo declaration (סר פחד השבועות)…
They also ignore the glaring dearth of anti-Zionist proclamations on Rabbi Meir Simcha’s part from even before.
P.S., The old website used to include here a known forgery by the infamous anti-Zionist inventor of dozens of nonexistent rabbinic letters against Zionism, with zero credibility, that is Chaim Bloch! (There may be similar specimens still left on R’ Shapiro’s site.)
יש עוד ספר ‘חמדת ימים’, להרב שלום שבזי
ספר “חמדת ימים” הוא פירוש על התורה בדרך הפרד”ס שנכתב על ידי הרב שלום שבזי.
ניתן לקרוא על הספר באתר המכלול כאן…
ראה בענין “חמדת הימים” השבאתי כאן.
ס’ מלחמת חרמה להרב דניאל ביטון נגד נטורי קרתא בכלל, ומשה הירש ודומיו בפרט
