Anybody who is interested in this thesis- law enforcement officers who are psychopaths- could turn to Larry Nivens ARM-stories, in the Ringworld-Universe. a typical sample can be found here
Almost no chance at all. Keep in mind, the most important thing, when it comes to dealing with this, this… insidious threat, is to be intensely careful in avoiding any false negatives. There must be none what so ever. And besides, who cares, really — about a few — or a few million false positives. Oh, and this condition, it’s really quite heritable, and, as head of the program, you would need to… well, deal with the children, in a like manner as that of the parents. Not that this would be a problem, of course.
Joe Stalin, the NKVD, the Moscow Trials, and the Great Purge sort of came to mind.
Well, if you aren’t doing regular sweeps to weed out infiltrators, then you’re not competent enough to get any actual results, in my estimation. And if you are, and they work, then people will notice the boss is due for a checkup …
I assume that any anti-psychopath program will end up being run by a psychopath.
Anybody who is interested in this thesis- law enforcement officers who are psychopaths- could turn to Larry Nivens ARM-stories, in the Ringworld-Universe. a typical sample can be found here
Paranoid schizophrenia isn’t psychopathy, though. (And protectors look a little like psychopaths, but not really.)
Actually, I was thinking of Slan.
I may have been overoptimistic. What are the odds that an anti-psychopath program will start by being run by a psychopath?
Almost no chance at all. Keep in mind, the most important thing, when it comes to dealing with this, this… insidious threat, is to be intensely careful in avoiding any false negatives. There must be none what so ever. And besides, who cares, really — about a few — or a few million false positives. Oh, and this condition, it’s really quite heritable, and, as head of the program, you would need to… well, deal with the children, in a like manner as that of the parents. Not that this would be a problem, of course.
Joe Stalin, the NKVD, the Moscow Trials, and the Great Purge sort of came to mind.
Godwin’s Law.
Well, if you aren’t doing regular sweeps to weed out infiltrators, then you’re not competent enough to get any actual results, in my estimation. And if you are, and they work, then people will notice the boss is due for a checkup …