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What kind of person? Regular millionaire/billionaire who know that they easily can get away with such decision using their wealth and/or power. Musk is totally

What kind of person? Regular millionaire/billionaire who know that they easily can get away with such decision using their wealth and/or power. Musk is totally ok to use materials mined by enslaved children of Madagascar. Or abuse his employees. Or fire people who try to organize a union. Or do plenty of other shady or illegal stuff. That kind of person.

mrweasel 3y ago
Let me rephrase then: What is wrong in the brain of these people? They have to live on the planet too, they have friend and family, people they care... No? Normal people can't get away with things like this, because the decisions would haunt our dreams.
- loganfrederick 3y ago
  I dove into the science of psychopathy a few years ago after a family incident where my father imploded his life and much of the family's through self-destructive activities and there is actually a bunch of smart people studying the neuroscience of pyschopaths. Two great books to start with: - The Science of Evil: https://www.amazon.com/Science-Evil-Empathy-Origins-Cruelty/dp/0465031420/ https://www.amazon.com/Science-Evil-Empathy-Origins-Cruelty/... - The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of Those Without Conscious: https://www.amazon.com/Psychopath-Whisperer-Science-Without-Conscience/dp/0770435866/ https://www.amazon.com/Psychopath-Whisperer-Science-Without-...
- IanCal 3y ago
  I'm not sure. Regular people make, logically, truly horrifying decisions constantly. I bought some wine for a friends get-together. That's pretty normal. But in doing so, I chose to have wine rather than vaccinate some children. I chose having a drink over the lives of deprived children. Am I not a monster?
- dexterdog 3y ago
  Which is why abnormal people are drawn to this kind of power.
- xvector 3y ago
  You could apply the same argument to normal people. Normal people eat meat, which causes incredible, extreme amounts of torture and suffering to over 70 billion land animals per year. The average person's dinner involved a tremendous amount of sheer pain and suffering, but it's satisfying to their taste buds, so they are fine with it, and will find ways to rationalize it. Most everyone is a psychopath at some level, capable of discarding empathy or rationalizing evil when it serves their own interests. The only difference with the CEOs is that they're doing it for money, not for taste. It's quite easy to imagine someone moving the goalposts for what is worth causing suffering for.

mrweasel 3y ago

Let me rephrase then: What is wrong in the brain of these people? They have to live on the planet too, they have friend and family, people they care... No? Normal people can't get away with things like this, because the decisions would haunt our dreams.

loganfrederick 3y ago
I dove into the science of psychopathy a few years ago after a family incident where my father imploded his life and much of the family's through self-destructive activities and there is actually a bunch of smart people studying the neuroscience of pyschopaths. Two great books to start with: - The Science of Evil: https://www.amazon.com/Science-Evil-Empathy-Origins-Cruelty/dp/0465031420/ https://www.amazon.com/Science-Evil-Empathy-Origins-Cruelty/... - The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of Those Without Conscious: https://www.amazon.com/Psychopath-Whisperer-Science-Without-Conscience/dp/0770435866/ https://www.amazon.com/Psychopath-Whisperer-Science-Without-...
IanCal 3y ago
I'm not sure. Regular people make, logically, truly horrifying decisions constantly. I bought some wine for a friends get-together. That's pretty normal. But in doing so, I chose to have wine rather than vaccinate some children. I chose having a drink over the lives of deprived children. Am I not a monster?
dexterdog 3y ago
Which is why abnormal people are drawn to this kind of power.
xvector 3y ago
You could apply the same argument to normal people. Normal people eat meat, which causes incredible, extreme amounts of torture and suffering to over 70 billion land animals per year. The average person's dinner involved a tremendous amount of sheer pain and suffering, but it's satisfying to their taste buds, so they are fine with it, and will find ways to rationalize it. Most everyone is a psychopath at some level, capable of discarding empathy or rationalizing evil when it serves their own interests. The only difference with the CEOs is that they're doing it for money, not for taste. It's quite easy to imagine someone moving the goalposts for what is worth causing suffering for.