I Am Fishead: Are Corporate Leaders Psychopaths?
Overall, it is a well-known fact that a small segment of society causes disproportionate problems and suffering for the rest of us. We’ve always wondered what keeps people from creating the kind of society we all want to see. We used to call it evil, but now we know that some people are incapable of empathy or showing remorse.
Documentary “I Am a Fish Head: Are Corporate Leaders Psychopaths?” Examining whether people at the top are more likely to be psychopaths than the rest of us.
The neurological definition of a psychopath is someone with a smaller amygdala (lower fear response) and generally less connections to the frontal lobe (thought center). There are many such people, and the reason is that these people are more willing to take risks and are therefore better able to seize opportunities. Psychopaths are risk takers and generally unafraid of most consequences.
It really comes down to how you define evil. Inflicting pain on others brings pleasure to some, a litmus test for acts of pure evil. If you don’t like killing the people behind the counter for not handing over the money, or signing papers to privatize the water supply in a small country, but you do it anyway because you want something in return, that’s still an evil, But to a lesser extent. In the first case, the stimulus and positive emotion to engage in the destructive behavior is your reward. In the second case, the reward is in the act of paying off, and the pain you caused doesn’t matter at all.
However, it is viewed on a personal level. From a societal point of view, “lesser” criminals or sociopaths may be more dangerous because they differ less from the average person. They are simply willing to take the extra step to achieve what they desire. They are likely to thrive where this behavior is rewarded and the responsibility is shared or not.
