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Calling people psychopaths and pathological liars implies that there is no reasoning behind their actions. You’re saying they’re mentally ill. Pathological liar

by imgabe 5y ago

Calling people psychopaths and pathological liars implies that there is no reasoning behind their actions. You’re saying they’re mentally ill. Pathological liars lie compulsively, about things for which there is no reason to lie. Is that what you’re claiming is happening with the entire executive staff of Facebook? They are all physiologically incapable of being honest? That they know and believe their actions are destructive and are committed to doing them anyway because they have a mental disorder that makes them unable to stop?

JumpCrisscross 5y ago
> Pathological liars lie compulsively, about things for which there is no reason to lie. Is that what you’re claiming is happening with the entire executive staff of Facebook? They are all physiologically incapable of being honest? That they know and believe their actions are destructive and are committed to doing them anyway because they have a mental disorder that makes them unable to stop? Nobody can make a diagnosis from a distance. I am saying their actions are substantially and increasingly indistinguishable from those of someone so afflicted. Lying about X-Check to their Oversight Board is one such instance. It's stupid. It's so stupid. If those who lied--and there were several, at least five to my count--who thought through whether they should lie, or if there were other, better options, they would have come to the rational conclusion. But they didn't. There was instinct built over years of cultural conditioning, and they did what they do. They lied. I have good friends at Instagram, WhatsApp, formerly Facebook (going back to the early days)--the whole shebang. It wasn't always like this. But within the last decade, senior leadership started acting like it was them against the world. That attitude created the situation they scorned.

by imgabe 5y ago

JumpCrisscross 5y ago

> Pathological liars lie compulsively, about things for which there is no reason to lie. Is that what you’re claiming is happening with the entire executive staff of Facebook? They are all physiologically incapable of being honest? That they know and believe their actions are destructive and are committed to doing them anyway because they have a mental disorder that makes them unable to stop? Nobody can make a diagnosis from a distance. I am saying their actions are substantially and increasingly indistinguishable from those of someone so afflicted. Lying about X-Check to their Oversight Board is one such instance. It's stupid. It's so stupid. If those who lied--and there were several, at least five to my count--who thought through whether they should lie, or if there were other, better options, they would have come to the rational conclusion. But they didn't. There was instinct built over years of cultural conditioning, and they did what they do. They lied. I have good friends at Instagram, WhatsApp, formerly Facebook (going back to the early days)--the whole shebang. It wasn't always like this. But within the last decade, senior leadership started acting like it was them against the world. That attitude created the situation they scorned.