...People use to blame each other for a wide range of reasons. Usually we don’t think about the reasons of the behavior of people. We tend to come to conclusion according what we see. Paradigm shift is a good term that defines the movement from one way of seeing the world to another. After reading “The power of paradigm shift” I promised myself never blame people for anything. The story of irresponsible father was too impressive for me. Everyone thought that the man doesn’t care about the upbringing of his children and that his children disturb everyone. However, it turned out that his wife had died and the author saw, thought, felt and behaved differently. I remember that one time my paradigm was also shifted. One of my friends came from the USA and managed to meet nearly all our friends. Then, when the time came for our meeting, ten minutes earlier she called me and told that she can’t meet me. I was furious and I thought that she doesn’t want to see me. I thought that I would never have an arrangement with her as I thought that she didn't want to hang out with me. Then, the next day, I found out that her grandmother died on the day of our arrangement. I was shocked and felt very ashamed. I felt guilty for not trying to understand her at that moment. The day before I thought that she was the most irresponsible person I have ever met, however the next day I blamed only myself. At that period of my life I uncovered very important lesson for myself. One should not judge others...
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...Company Q has an attitude that is very focused on their economic responsibility. The report of two stores being closed because of their consistent money loss points to a concern about economic responsibility. This is a move that benefits the company financially as a whole. If there are no stores losing money, the company becomes more profitable. This allows for employees to have more job stability and for the company to potentially expand into other regions that will be profitable. Economic responsibility is one of the most important responsibilities that a company has. If they are irresponsible with their finances, they will be unable to stay in business. Company Q is also unwilling to donate day old merchandise because of a risk of lost revenue from fraud also demonstrates a focus on the economic responsibility of the company. Economic responsibility is oftentimes in conflict with ethical and philanthropic responsibility and such a focus on economic responsibility may hint that there will be a low level of those types of responsibility. Legal The legal responsibilities have been adequately met by Company Q. The given does not indicate that they are breaking any laws. Legal responsibility requires that a company follows all laws that are laid out by the local, state, and federal governments. Company Q does not seem to have an attitude that is out of line with their legal responsibilities. Ethical Ethical responsibility deals with whether or not a company does what is right by...
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...Personal Responsibility: A key to Success in all aspects of life Ashley Benard GEN/200 Foundations for General Education and Professional Success 11/4/13 Instructor: Paul Bishop Although everyone does not possess strong personal responsibility skills does not mean that they cannot be successful in life, Personal responsibility is the key to being successful in all aspects of life. Personal responsibility is the key to being successful in all aspects of life. It is evident that when you lack responsibility for yourself that it plays a part in the lack of success you may encounter in life. Personal relationships and careers can be affected when you do not take control of your actions. Taking full responsibility for your short comings and not blaming others for what you are not doing will lead to redirection into a positive and successful life. Listed below are 5 Keys to Success. 1. Stop the blame game. 2. Root out your irresponsibility. 3. Change your self-talk. 4. Keep on learning. 5. Don't be disturbed by the sore losers. Zimmerman, A. (2012). Association of Information Technology Professionals. Retrieved from http://www.aitp.org/news/100685/ Being irresponsible can lead to poor choices. One trait in individuals that are irresponsible is that they make impulse decisions. They don’t make the effort to investigate or gather information without doing the first thing that comes to mind. They use constant excuses and blame everyone but themselves...
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...Who has to take responsibility for your life and actions? Only you can and only you should. Whoever has that virtue of taking responsibility for their consequences that came from their intentioned acts and their non-intentioned acts really knows what is to take responsibility for their actions. Today in our society they would like for us to believe that whatever it was that prevented us to reach what we desire in any subject is someone’s fault. It is clear that, in the bottom of our heart and mind we know that this is completely false. Responsibility is the road, not assuming responsibility signifies that we can’t accept to blame ourselves for our actions and current situations. Scott Peck in The Road Less Traveled affirmed that one of the most difficult psychological conditions to treat the disorder of not taking responsibility for ourselves is the actual person - when the person really believes that is someone else’s fault for all her unfortunate situations. As you treat that person that always blames everything and everybody they need to get through their heads that they did it, they need to take responsibility for it and actions to fix what happened. A great example of not taking responsibility for your actions is just by watching a judicial trial caused by an adult that doesn’t take responsibility for the crime they have committed. Another great example are the people who love suing the fast-food businesses, but wait didn’t they drive to the place? Didn’t they...
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...THE EXECUTION OF PSYCHOPATHS Is the Performance Unconstitutional? Mental illness and capital punishment make an extremely controversial mix. However, what happens when the subject of psychopaths get introduced to this popular mix? The main focus of this paper is to shed some light on the argument of whether or not it is unconstitutional to execute psychopaths. This paper will introduce definitions, history, and current theories being introduced by both sides of the argument. Brief History of the Death Penalty on the Mentally Ill The death penalty is one of the most talked about punishments in the United States today. However, there are common misconceptions as to where did the death penalty originate in the United States. Early America actually...
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...The Psychopath Understanding and Treatment Abstract Mental health disorders are among the most complex disorders to understand. Persons with these types of disorders are not commonly accepted into society. Psychopaths are among some of the most difficult disorders to treat. These persons most often come from a background lacking structure and continuity. Proper treatment is heavily debated. Report It is a popular belief that psychopaths are considered to be individuals that are as brilliantly charming as they are morally insane. However, the tendency to refer to the psychopathic behavior as “morally insane” is a misconception. Regardless of scientific discoveries, psychopathy is a disease which results in a physiological deficiency. The brain of psychopaths is believed to fail in generation of proper wave activity. Waves emitted are generally slower in individuals suffering from psychopathic behavior. This fundamental incompetence is responsible for a lower degree of arousal when these persons face a threatening situation. Their lack of anxiety and consequent careless behavior in any situation is commonly referred to as lack of conscience. These individuals lack the plethora of emotions that arise in the “normal” individual; that is, the ability to feel, to anticipate the breaking of the law, or to feel sorry when they break these laws. They are deprived of a conscience which organizes the moral notions of good and bad. In normal behavior, acts are constrained by...
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...Is cheating and murder analogous? Is it the adrenaline rush of possibly getting caught? Maybe it’s like a drug once you start it you can’t stop. The legal definition of a serial killer is someone who has killed at least three people in a matter of thirty days. All serial killers are psychopaths and sociopaths, but be that as it may not all sociopaths and psychopaths are killers. To know a killer we have to get into the mindset of one. Nevertheless, the question that still stands is what makes a serial killer? The dictionary definition of a serial killer is a person who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable pattern (Oxford). What is a sociopath? A sociopath is a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience ( Dictionary). What is a psychopath? A psychopath is a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc (Dictionary)....
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...A Serial Killer’s Life Course Serial killing is at least as old as humanity itself. The study of serial killing, however, has only been around for the last few decades. As such, there has not been much investigation into the sociological or criminological precursors to serial killing. Because of this, I was interested to attempt to apply theory from the Developmental Life Course Perspective to the lives of serial murderers. Through the implementation of case studies, a pattern did, in fact, emerge that appeared to conform to the Perspective’s theory regarding entrance into, engagement in, and desistance from crime. BACKGROUND AND HISTORY A person with Antisocial Personality Disorder, also called APD, is popularly known as a psychopath...
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...VOLUME EDITOR S. WALLER is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Montana State University Bozeman. Her areas of research are philosophy of neurology, philosophy of cognitive ethology (especially dolphins, wolves, and coyotes), and philosophy of mind, specifically the parts of the mind we disavow. SERIES EDITOR FRITZ ALLHOFF is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, Allhoff is the volume editor or co-editor for several titles, including Wine & Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Whiskey & Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and Food & Philosophy (with Dave Monroe,Wiley-Blackwell, 2007). P H I L O S O P H Y F O R E V E RYO N E Series editor: Fritz Allhoff Not so much a subject matter, philosophy is a way of thinking.Thinking not just about the Big Questions, but about little ones too.This series invites everyone to ponder things they care about, big or small, significant, serious … or just curious. Running & Philosophy: A Marathon for the Mind Edited by Michael W. Austin Wine & Philosophy: A Symposium on Thinking and Drinking Edited by Fritz Allhoff Food & Philosophy: Eat,Think and Be Merry Edited by Fritz Allhoff and Dave Monroe Beer & Philosophy: The Unexamined Beer Isn’t Worth Drinking Edited by Steven D. Hales Whiskey & Philosophy:...
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...1037/a0033485 Subcomponents of Psychopathy Have Opposing Correlations With Punishment Judgments Jana Schaich Borg Stanford University and Duke University Rachel E. Kahn University of New Orleans Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Duke University This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers. This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly. Robert Kurzban University of Pennsylvania Paul H. Robinson University of Pennsylvania Law School Kent A. Kiehl University of New Mexico and Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Research Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico Psychopathy research is plagued by an enigma: Psychopaths reliably act immorally, but they also accurately report whether an action is morally wrong. The current study revealed that cooperative suppressor effects and conflicting subsets of personality traits within the construct of psychopathy might help explain this conundrum. Among a sample of adult male offenders (N 100) who ranked deserved punishment of crimes, Psychopathy Checklist–Revised (PCL–R) total scores were not linearly correlated with deserved punishment task performance. However, these null results masked significant opposing associations between task performance and factors of psychopathy: the PCL–R Interpersonal/Affective (i.e., manipulative and callous) factor was positively associated with task performance, while the PCL–R...
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...There have been four serious financial crises and countless more corporate scandals with global implications in just the last decade. All of them driven by greed and corruption, all of them led by dynamic, charismatic business leaders who initially showed fantastic promise, innovation and financial leadership. And it seems with the most recent of these crises, many of the key players in the 2008 global recession have not only not been punished, but are still in the same positions of power and able to continue their transgressions. Here are some interesting highlights of the last decade: Enron scandal (2001): Andrew Fastow the CFO of Enron along with Kenneth Lay the Chairman and Jeffrey Skilling the CEO develop an offbalancesheet mark to market fraud that loses $11 billion and bankrupts Enron. It is the largest bankruptcy reorganization in US history at the time. They are charged with conspiracy, wire fraud, securities fraud, false statements, insider trading and money laundering. Fastow serves 6 years in prison, Lay passes away before sentencing and Skilling is sentenced to 24 years in prison. WorldCom scandal (2005): Bernard Ebbers the CEO of WorldCom loses $100 billion of shareholder value in the largest accounting scandal in US history (until Madoff). Ebbers is charged with securities fraud and conspiracy and is serving 25 years in prison. Bernard Madoff (2008): Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC heads a $50 billion ponzi scheme, the largest in history, and is charged with securities fraud...
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...Children Psychopaths In 1979, sixteen-year-old Brenda Spencer received a rifle for her birthday. She used it to shoot kids at an elementary school near her San Diego home, wounding nine and killing two. A reporter asked her later why she had done it. Her answer: "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." In 1993, two bodies were found on a country road in Ellis County, Texas. One was male, one female. The boy, 14, had been shot, but the 13-year-old girl had been stripped, raped, and dismembered. Her head and hands were missing. The killer turned out to be Jason Massey, who had decided he was going to become the worst serial killer that Texas had ever seen. He tortured animals, stalked another young woman, and revered killers like Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and Henry Lee Lucas. He was nine years old when he killed his first cat. He added dozens more over the years, along with dogs and even six cows. He had a long list of potential victims and his diaries were filled with fantasies of rape, torture, and cannibalism of female victims. He was a loner who believed he served a "master" who gave him knowledge and power. He was obsessed with bringing girls under his control and having their dead bodies in his possession. Nine-year-old Jeffrey Bailey, Jr. pushed a three-year-old friend into the deep part of a motel pool in Florida in 1986. He wanted to see someone drown. As the boy sank to the bottom, Jeffrey pulled up a chair to watch. When it was finished, he went home....
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...corporation was said to be like a family. Asia K. Philson Everyone works together for a common in goal like a family would do. One important key factor is that certain corporations are exposing dangerous chemicals that harm us. Some believers feel we are in a major cancer epidemic due to harsh chemicals that one is exposed to on an everyday basis. The synthetic chemicals are not only causing cancers but birth defects and other toxic mishaps as well. Animals are born with defects and a child was born without eyes. The documentary explains that a corporation is psychotic If you're looking at the corporation as a person. The corporation is said to have all the characteristics of a psychopath. The people that are part of the corporation such as stockholders, workers, and Executives all have moral responsibility within a corporation. The CEO of Goodyear says that his job is very stressful and that he does not have complete control (Sam g) Since 1990 Goodyear has laid off over 20,000 employees and closed 8 plants. He explains that it's a decision that he never likes to make. Society views CEOs and other important people of corporations monsters of their institution, when in fact they can be completely opposite. Decision-makers like CEOs can be in fact,very good people. CEO Ray Anderson of interface had several important key points of what a corporation is made of. Ray Anderson mentions that every living system is in decline And that we are leaving a diminishing environment for our...
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...Criminal Behavior Lorenzo Reid Virginia College Online Abstract The following paper will address the different areas of the Psychological and Psychiatric Foundations of Criminal Behavior. Within this paper, every aspect from theories to what the law states when it comes to this state will be addressed. Criminal Behavior Doctor Leon Eisenberg once stated, "...persons who are seriously mentally ill are far more likely to be the victims of violence than its initiators." (Campbell) Yet how true is that? When it comes to mental illness, there have been several violent crimes that have been committed, and been blamed on mental illness. There are several shows for entertainment such as the show “Criminal Minds”, that attempts to bring a reality and understanding to mental illness and criminal behavior. This show gives a reality to the fact that people can be simply mentally ill and not simply criminals. In early society times, people simply did not take mental illness into account. It was thought that people, regardless of their mental state, should be accountable for their actions. Yet, in today’s society, this is not the case. Due to research and a better developed country, citizens are given an opportunity to show that their mental state was not steady when they committed a crime. So, what is it then, which motivated a person to kill or maim another? How can a person kill someone else, or a numerous amount of people, with no remorse? These questions and several...
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...In the paper titled “Lifeboat Earth” the author, Onara O’Neill, a celebrated and world-renowned philosopher, takes a deontological approach towards the issue of global poverty and the moral responsibility of eradicating (deaths ensuing from) world hunger through famine relief aid extended by the First-World countries. An ardent supporter of Kantian ethics, as evidenced by the content of her papers and emphasis on duty as shall be discussed; O’Neill emphasizes and seeks answers as to the moral responsibility of those in well-to-do situations, to lessen the hardships faced by those that are worse off. In that, through means of drawing a parallel, in terms of a metaphor; she likens the earth to a lifeboat with limited resources, adrift at sea....
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