Microsoft Hatred FAQ 5142

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:53:29 -0700, David Schwartz

When you are repeating a fact with as much psychological research supporting it as that one, it isn't necessary to justify it, any more than it would be necessary to justify a statement like "parents love their children". It isn't John Kennedy's fault that you aren't up to date.

Both statements are generalisations, it is true, and both are probably true about the same percentage of time.

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, a much higher percentage of "go-getters" like company CEOs, generals, politicians, executives, etc. Very few of them chop people up into small pieces and bury them in the wall cavities of their house.

With training and-or a good dose of enlightened self-interest, most psychopaths are perfectly capable of learning to not be selfish vicious brutes who care only for themselves and perhaps a few others. Or rather, to stop *acting* as selfish vicious brutes. Not caring about the harm done by your corporate machinery is not a crime. 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.

-- Steven.