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Cal33

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Fri Apr 13, 2012, 12:23 PM Apr 2012

Psychologist Robert D. Hare, Ph.D. in his book "Without Conscience" poses the [View all]

question: "Is Gov. Scott Walker a psychopath?"

"...We are becoming much more educated these days about psychopaths and as was stated above, there are many more of them than many people had realized - and they are running around free, they are living lives as if they were normal people, yet, still causing us all to live lives which are dramatically different than we would be able to live without them causing us the trouble that they do. Another expression or term that has been applied to psychopaths recently is that they are 'anti-human beings'. In some studies on the subject, psychopaths are described as non-human beings, but beings of a different sort, meaning they may look or have the appearance of ordinary human beings, but that they are in fact, another species - one that preys on humans.

There may be as many as five genes which psychopaths have which are different from normal (real) human beings. This could make them as different from us than an entirely different species, as if they are actually like (land) sharks which happen to look like us. And I think that this is the real danger for us when it come to psychopaths, IS that they look like us. We know to avoid sharks and other dangerous creatures, but what if those dangerous creatures look and act just like us? That, is what I feel that we are really dealing with when it comes to psychopaths.

Some of the items that called my attention to Scott Walker as a psychopath is that he has done many things the same way that I have seen psychopaths do things. One thing that they do is to use 'disclaimers'. That is, that they will tell you (to some degree that seems reasonable) what they plan to do. But they are thinking of things not as a normal human being, but as if this were like a chess game where they are always about 5 to 10 moves ahead of everyone else. they know ahead of time, for instance, what they will be forcing their opponents to do and they have already thought out how they are going to exploit the situation at that point. ........"

http://iswalkerpsycho.webs.com/

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I believe it speaks worse Puzzledtraveller Apr 2012 #1
No basis in fact? Really? Ask the teachers of Wisconsin, the firemen, the state Cal33 Apr 2012 #3
And, when caught red-handed, they don't comprehend that they've done anything wrong. DCKit Apr 2012 #5
Right you are. You really do understand what psychopaths are. They are dangerous and Cal33 Apr 2012 #6
You apparently haven't read the link. He gives many facts that back up his statements. Cal33 Apr 2012 #4
He's very famous laundry_queen Apr 2012 #7
Dr. Hare has a whole website devoted to studying sociopathy, psychopathy and antisocial Cal33 Apr 2012 #11
Now now bigotry always has some basis whistler162 Apr 2012 #9
This is exactly what I mean when I refer to various right-wingers as subhuman. backscatter712 Apr 2012 #2
Not all sub-human creatures are dangerous to humans, but psychopaths definitely are. Cal33 Apr 2012 #8
Pseudoscientific bullshit alcibiades_mystery Apr 2012 #10
On what do you base this pronouncement? n/t Egalitarian Thug Apr 2012 #13
Top 10 Classic signs of a sociopath felix_numinous Apr 2012 #12
These are great articles, but how many are willing to read them? :) Cal33 Apr 2012 #18
I don't see that any knowledge is gained by labeling scott a psychopath. Scott serves his masters. HiPointDem Apr 2012 #14
I think that is because it hasn't hit you yet how crucial it has already become for our nation, Cal33 Apr 2012 #15
you didn't respond to the content of my post, which was basically that these labels offer no HiPointDem Apr 2012 #16
Capitalism began in Europe. It was an improvement over Feudalism, when the nobility Cal33 Apr 2012 #17
Kurt Vonnegut recommends "The Mask of Sanity" Junkdrawer Apr 2012 #19
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