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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 7651016" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>Hopefully we can continue part of this conversation without hitting politics.</p><p></p><p>I have a coworker who tested just high enough on the sociopath-ometer to qualify as a good sniper, but not a serial killer when he was in the military. There's a wall with names of top 5 marksman to pass through the marine corps. His name is on it. he tested so high, because he could compy with any order, so long as it was legal. Meaning, you tell him to shoot that dude over there and he sees it's legal, he'll take the shot and sleep like a baby after doing it. Of course he also debated with his CO on why they were practicing with .50 cal rounds on human shaped targets when the Geneva Conventions forbid using them on humans (armor piercing rounds are for shooting vehicles, not exposed humans).</p><p></p><p>As he has said, if he was on jury duty, he would totally side with the cop, because why would the cop lie.</p><p></p><p>Out of this brief character portrait, I see a Lawful-aligned person. The rules matter, and this person does take time to go look at the rules. While this person is less likely to break the law, and less likely to perform a crime of passion (the sociopath/lizard brain in them can't break the logical constraint of the law), this kind of person is quite capable of doing bad things, deciding wrongly in cases if the law enables it. As the old Hitler's Helpers argument of "I was only following orders" comes up, this is the extreme end where this lawful mentality can go.</p><p></p><p>As a Chaotic person, I don't trust the guy making the laws. I'm smarter than over half the people on the planet, and given the dumbness in the laws, I think I know where that half of the population finds employment. I can make context-sensitive decisions better than a blanket, brute force law that was designed to not allow exceptions, such as where the law is wrong. I have nothing against cops, but I do see where they are biased, flawed and entitled (I hate that word) in a court of law such that if they make a mistake, you are screwed in court. The YouTube video on "why you shouldn't talk to cops" convinced me of that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 7651016, member: 8835"] Hopefully we can continue part of this conversation without hitting politics. I have a coworker who tested just high enough on the sociopath-ometer to qualify as a good sniper, but not a serial killer when he was in the military. There's a wall with names of top 5 marksman to pass through the marine corps. His name is on it. he tested so high, because he could compy with any order, so long as it was legal. Meaning, you tell him to shoot that dude over there and he sees it's legal, he'll take the shot and sleep like a baby after doing it. Of course he also debated with his CO on why they were practicing with .50 cal rounds on human shaped targets when the Geneva Conventions forbid using them on humans (armor piercing rounds are for shooting vehicles, not exposed humans). As he has said, if he was on jury duty, he would totally side with the cop, because why would the cop lie. Out of this brief character portrait, I see a Lawful-aligned person. The rules matter, and this person does take time to go look at the rules. While this person is less likely to break the law, and less likely to perform a crime of passion (the sociopath/lizard brain in them can't break the logical constraint of the law), this kind of person is quite capable of doing bad things, deciding wrongly in cases if the law enables it. As the old Hitler's Helpers argument of "I was only following orders" comes up, this is the extreme end where this lawful mentality can go. As a Chaotic person, I don't trust the guy making the laws. I'm smarter than over half the people on the planet, and given the dumbness in the laws, I think I know where that half of the population finds employment. I can make context-sensitive decisions better than a blanket, brute force law that was designed to not allow exceptions, such as where the law is wrong. I have nothing against cops, but I do see where they are biased, flawed and entitled (I hate that word) in a court of law such that if they make a mistake, you are screwed in court. The YouTube video on "why you shouldn't talk to cops" convinced me of that. [/QUOTE]
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