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This needs to be said more often, and should be at the core of ethics courses: “What is the point of accruing influence and money and prestige if you won’t use
by voisin 3y ago
This needs to be said more often, and should be at the core of ethics courses:
“What is the point of accruing influence and money and prestige if you won’t use them to help people? Stop saying “this isn’t my job; there’s nothing I can do; I don’t want to know; it didn’t happen to me; it’s none of my business.” Mankind is your business. The common welfare is your business. The dealings of your trade are but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of your business.”
- smeej 3y agoI think the point for such leaders, unconscious though it may be, is to feel safe. There's something they're hoping never to have to experience or feel ever again, and this is what they're doing to keep that from happening. It's only ever going to be a temporary solution, but the parts of the person's psyche that are driving these decisions are probably pretty stuck in a difficult time when they felt powerless against the same sort of thing they're trying to avoid today, and they react from that immaturity. I'm armchair psychologizing, but I think the behavior of people who seek power for reasons other than to help people makes more sense if we realize they're not making decisions from a mature, adult part of their experience.
- voisin 3y agoPerhaps ethics classes should be replaced with counselling sessions so people can value their demons. Maybe C-suite execs and corporate board members should have mandatory hours of monthly therapy in order to have the power they wield.
- cutemonster 3y agoYou and GP might find the Dark Triad interesting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad (Therapy and counseling won't change such personality traits)