You Want the Guy That's Going to Get Me Up

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A lot of the traits of psychopaths are things we want, like wall street traders. Chris rock has had a funny riff about this years ago,. He said you should hire johnny cockran and the guy goes but that'll make me look guilty. You want the what the guy s gonto. And then kevin dutton has a whole chapter on am special forces. These guys are fearless. Theyknow they're psy psychopathic in the sense that they don't care about other people. That's who you want if you want a navy seal guy. So obviously we don't want the people, the psychopathic bullies, that are murderersd and total cheats, but you do

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