1 out of 25 Business Leaders is a Psychopath

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Joelcool7 said:

Yes I read the article a lot of those traits are found in all sorts of people I would hardly call them all psychopaths. If you follow those traits then Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are all psychopaths. In fact almost every successful business man on earth is a psychopath. Blind ambition is not something that should make you a psychopath.

About half or more of those symptoms are common. Just look at North America everyone is only looking out for themselves. Even going by what we eat and how we treat others its all psychopathic according to this article.

Also I have autism and some of those traits apply. I don't understand body language, sarcasm and while I feel emotion myself I have a very hard time understanding peoples emotions.

So that makes me a psychopath now doesn't it?

As I said just because somebody has some quirks and such. They may even have trouble with empathy and understanding emotion. That doesn't make them psychopaths. People who hurt others for fun because they can't mentally stop. Those are psychopaths, most of the traits up their describe normal people or people with slight disabilities.

Not everyone with a disability is a psychopath!

No, it makes you autistic.

And if you would've read the article properly (it's the obonly explanation I can give for your not understanding of it), you'd know that the people singled out DO HURT PEOPLE FOR FUN (check out my second link). And this article doesn't say that succesful business people are psychopaths, just that a psychopath display traits that will get him ahead in the contemporary business world. I don't see how anyone can say that lack of empathyand lack of remorse for hurting others are mere 'quirks'. The only thing separating these people from those who go out and kill people is that they didn't have a violent childhood.

I don't really know why you'd say that those 3 business men you'd mentioned would be considered psychopaths, other than you've misunderstood the article totally (granted, if the portrayal of Zuckeberg in The Social Network is accurate, then he really is a psychopath; I don't know much about Jobs, but Gates is too humanitarian to be a psychopath).