If we allow people with significant dark tetrad personality traits (narcissism, machiavellianism, psychopathy, everyday sadism) or social dominance oriented people to have any meaningful amount of power over others, including the ability to run for office or vote, they will eventually turn societies into… well, what we see now.
Unsurprisingly conservatism overlaps with those traits.
So, ironically, to be able to run a functioning democracy, you’d have to exclude a fairly sizeable chunk of the population from participating in it
Neurotypical people are just as capable of being evil dicks as all the people who are lumped together as having the ‘evil demon bad person disorder’. Selfish people aren’t narcissists. Cruel people aren’t psyhopaths.
Why not prevent people who get drunk on power from coming in power? If people would get inebriated by driving, we’d have laws preventing them from driving unless they have a live breathalyzer in the car
If we allow people with significant dark tetrad personality traits (narcissism, machiavellianism, psychopathy, everyday sadism) or social dominance oriented people to have any meaningful amount of power over others, including the ability to run for office or vote, they will eventually turn societies into… well, what we see now.
Unsurprisingly conservatism overlaps with those traits.
So, ironically, to be able to run a functioning democracy, you’d have to exclude a fairly sizeable chunk of the population from participating in it
Edit: and this includes directorial or managerial positions in any kind of organisation, because corporate psychopaths are common scarily common and very harmful
This is the way it is. I couldn’t agree more. They must be put on some kind of supervised permanant probation for the good of us all.
Neurotypical people are just as capable of being evil dicks as all the people who are lumped together as having the ‘evil demon bad person disorder’. Selfish people aren’t narcissists. Cruel people aren’t psyhopaths.
OK, and remind me where I said they weren’t?
Right, and where did I say all of them are?
Cool, and where did I say all of them are?
Why not prevent people who get drunk on power from coming in power? If people would get inebriated by driving, we’d have laws preventing them from driving unless they have a live breathalyzer in the car
Those are exactly the sort of people who get drunk on power