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<blockquote data-quote="seebs" data-source="post: 6735697" data-attributes="member: 61529">There's a whole lot of people in various fields who would be clinically psychopaths except that they've become adaptive enough that it's not really accurate to diagnose them with a personality disorder, as something's only really a disorder if it makes problems for you or others. There are certainly people in finance who behave with consistent and total contempt for other people... and also lots who are really pretty cool people. It's a mixed bag, as always.Psychopaths may not respect the law, but they may decide to treat it as a boundary of &quot;what I can reasonably get away with&quot;. One of the observed behaviors of a lot of people in finance is that they're totally willing to screw other people over in possibly-fatal ways as long as doing so won't get them in trouble. Which isn't so much respect for the law as an ideal as respect for the law as a thing backed by guys with guns.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="seebs, post: 6735697, member: 61529"] There's a whole lot of people in various fields who would be clinically psychopaths except that they've become adaptive enough that it's not really accurate to diagnose them with a personality disorder, as something's only really a disorder if it makes problems for you or others. There are certainly people in finance who behave with consistent and total contempt for other people... and also lots who are really pretty cool people. It's a mixed bag, as always. Psychopaths may not respect the law, but they may decide to treat it as a boundary of "what I can reasonably get away with". One of the observed behaviors of a lot of people in finance is that they're totally willing to screw other people over in possibly-fatal ways [b]as long as doing so won't get them in trouble[/b]. Which isn't so much respect for the law as an ideal as respect for the law as a thing backed by guys with guns. [/QUOTE]

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