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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (3844)	1/31/1998 12:25:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

Holly, My God! A woman agrees with me! Thank you. I guess we are not precisely defining sociopath. >>After all, only a sociopath could stand up to the rigorous scrutiny we have been putting our candidates through since the days of Watergate. I agree with you that there is some similarity between a criminal sociopath and a person who climbs the ladder of success and reaches its highest level. Intelligence, drive, and charm are all part of the picture and may be pretty much genetically predetermined. Could murderer Ted Bundy have become a politician or CEO, nourished by a different environment? An interesting question that I don't pretend to have the answer for. But "sociopath" also carries (for me) the connotation of one who cares not at all for the feelings (lives, property) of others. He has a peculiar inablilty to put himself into the place of another human being. He also rationalizes that he is right or justified when he takes from or uses another human being for his own selfish means. If you go to a prison and interview the inmates, you find an interesting phenomenon: every one of them is either completely innocent or there were mitigating circumstances having to do with his crime. Guilt is in short supply. You also mention "borderline personalities". I am not a mental health professional, but I have heard of this abnormality, and interestingly, one person I communicate with has recently tried to characterize Monica Lewinsky as a borderline. He recommends a paperback book I hate you; Don't leave me as a good introduction to the disorder. I just ordered it through amazon.com. Jack