It's time for psychological screening of candidates for high public and corporate office so that psychopaths can be detected and legally prohibited from being elected or appointed,
Why is this important?
We as a society are paying an enormously high cost because of this damaging disorder. We need to find out what makes these people tick in order to tackle the problem at its roots. Maclean's goes on to state: "According to Hare, 'many psychopaths find wealth and success as highly manipulative corporate careerists, as thugs on professional sports teams or as unscrupulous politicians." Given the potential liabilities government officials can be to the citizenry, both at the local as well as state and federal levels, is it unreasonable for the public to demand that public officials be mentally balanced? At the very least is it unreasonable to demand such public officials are NOT one of the 1% that experts estimate in the general population to be pathological? If government officials can brand citizens as "criminals" for refusing to submit to chemical tests to "prove" they are "normal," why doesn't the citizen have the same right to require that a candidate for public office demonstrate they are normal -- at the very least NOT the 1% pathological -- by submitting to a brain scan, chemical test and/or a psychological evaluation?
