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“sometime over the last several decades—and it is only over the last several decades—science has filled in enough knowledge to make ineptitude as much our struggle as ignorance.”
― The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
― The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
“The third point is that some of our efforts to treat psychopaths may be misplaced. The term treatment implies that there is something to treat: illness, subjective distress, maladaprive behaviors, and so forth. But, as far as we can determine, psychopaths are perfectly happy with themselves, and they see no need for treatment, at least in the traditional sense of the term.”
― Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
― Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
“É preciso não contar demasiadamente com Deus, mas talvez Deus conte conosco...”
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“But isn’t the behavior of psychopaths maladaprive? The answer is that it may be maladaprive for society but it is adaptive for the individuals themselves.”
― Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
― Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
“According to Callero, “Freedom of choice and self-determination are virtuous principles, but when selfish individual interests threaten to destroy the common good, the limits of individualism are exposed.”4 Unfortunately but predictably, Callero is vague when it comes to defining “the common good”—a catchphrase with many variations that has been used by murderous dictators throughout history. May we therefore say that the “common good,” when pushed to extremes, results in the likes of Stalin and Hitler?”
― Individualism: A Reader
― Individualism: A Reader
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