Posted by baseball55 on October 6, 2015, at 20:41:47
In reply to Re: Shooters and Psychiatry » Tomatheus, posted by hello321 on October 6, 2015, at 19:48:07
Studies show consistently that people with power or high status, even when that power or high status are given arbitrarily in psych experiments (think the Stanford Prison Experiment), are less compassionate and significantly less generous. Some studies find that people with power and wealth exhibit the characteristics of anti-socal personality disorder. The sociopathic nature of economic crimes is enabled by the cutthroat corporate culture where profits are valued above all and the tendency of high-level executives to "just follow orders" and take no individual responsibility for the human consequences of their actions.
I agree that corporate crime (or sometimes it's not crime, because corporations lobby Congress to not deem things "crimes") probably cause more death and misery than gun violence. In the US, we don't think of corporations as outright killing people, but those same corporations in developing countries will hire security forces to kill union organizers and community organizers who oppose the social and environmental impacts of mining or drilling.
As Marx wrote, capitalism entered this world drenched in blood.
> But I believe even the wealthy are regularly committing crimes. though with their crimes more likely falling into the category of crimes against humanity. An example being when a drug company covers up information about severe adverse effects their products can have on those who take their product. Or an auto company ignoring/hiding defects in their vehicles that result in the injury or death of many. But often they simply pay a fine when they are found out, and just go on about their business. Yet the amount of harm their actions/inaction often cause end up making any mass shooting look like a tiny speck in the statistics.
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