Hip
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Are you allright Hip?
I certainly do not have a phobia to psychologists, like many on this forum appear to have.
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Are you allright Hip?
I certainly do not have a phobia to psychologists, like many on this forum appear to have.
You don't think these thoughts about screening for psychpaths and preventing them from holding certain positions are a bit ... crazy?
You don't think these thoughts about screening for psychpaths and preventing them from holding certain positions are a bit ... crazy?
I know what you mean. If all the psychopaths were removed from government and business, we'd soon run out of Dear Leaders to occupy corner offices...
Psychopaths have not place in decent society, it's not a question of abusing a minority
they are *MONSTERS*, for the basic point and necessity of Humanity: compassion,
But my general view is that psychological diagnosis should be used far more that it is in society.
Psychiatry is so bad at diagnosis that we need to be very careful not to diagnose people who do not need a diagnosis.
That will hopefully save a lot of the suicides that occur in soldiers with PTSD.
A better method would be to quit having so many wars.
I argue in this post that society should have a screening program in place for psychopaths (1% of the general population are psychopaths), such that psychopaths are prevented from holding influential or executive jobs, such corporate CEO, or a military commander..
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For example, there is now a drive to get a better understanding of which personality traits are more likely to develop PTSD during military combat, and to screen those personality traits in soldiers. That will hopefully save a lot of the suicides that occur in soldiers with PTSD.
A good first start would be to stop psychopaths from becoming psychiatrists
Cameron argued that it was necessary for behavioral scientists to act as the social planners of society, and that the United Nations could provide a conduit for implementing his ideas for applying psychiatric elements to global governance and politics.
Cameron started to distinguish populations between "the weak" and "the strong". Those with anxieties or insecurities and who had trouble with the state of the world were labeled as "the weak"; in Cameron's analysis, they could not cope with life and had to be isolated from society by "the strong". The mentally ill were thus labeled as not only sick, but also weak. Cameron further argued that "the weak" must not influence children. He promoted a philosophy where chaos could be prevented by removing the weak from society
Some of Dr. Cameron’s suggestions had struck Dulles as original and far-reaching – such as his proposal that after the war each surviving German over the age of twelve should receive a short course of electroshock treatment to burn out any remaining vestige of Nazism (Thomas 1989, p. 152).
And less consciousnesses soldiers?
That seems not so much an issue of lack of conscience, but lack of intelligence.
I'm a little uncomfortable with some of this, certainly the characterization of why soldiers act. Abstract thought and real world human motivations seldom meet. When they do, it seems to fall on the scalpel's edge - or at the end of an electroshock paddle.
Soldiers don't act on behalf of the State.