Psychopaths

<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050919/od_nm/traders_dc">Psychopaths could be best financial traders?</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>"Wanted: psychopaths to make a killing in the markets."<br />n<br />nSuch an advert will not be appearing in the world's newspapers any time soon, but it may have a ring of truth after research revealed the best wheeler-dealers could well be "functional psychopaths."</blockquote><br />n<br />nSo, "functional psychopaths" control our financial markets. It's not as bad as it sounds though since sometimes I think "functional psychopaths" are in control of our Government at all levels so maybe they cancel each other out.<br />n<br />nThis statement was curious too.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>A team of U.S. scientists has found the emotionally impaired are more willing to gamble for high stakes</blockquote><br />n<br />nSince farming and ranching are nothing more than a gamble against nature and man, are farmers and ranchers "functional psychopaths" or aren't the "stakes" high enough?<br />n<br />n<b>We're always going to have our prisons, we're always going to have our places of preventive detention for psychopaths, and we're always going to have a certain number of people in our community who have no desire to achieve or who have no desire to even fit in an amicable way with the rest of society. Spiro Theodore Agnew</b>