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Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?


Serious greed - the kind where half a billion, five billion, ten billion, fifty billion just isn't enough? Clearly there is something seriously mentally wrong with those people.

Seems to me that it is. Discuss.


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2. yes, with an intervention

...and that intervention is appropriate taxation.
DUmmies are the most greedy people i know. So, yes you should be treated. Nice projection.

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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2016, 09:09:47 AM »
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6. Actually, when it has such a negative impact on society as a whole, I think it should

be treated as a crime and the perpetrators should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law

This is why leftism ends as Stalinism every time.

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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2016, 09:11:25 AM »
DU and its inhabitants should be treated as a mental illness.  In fact, it should be treated as a case study on mental illness.

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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2016, 09:14:20 AM »
As Milton Friedman said. Who are these angels in government who are not going to be greedy with our money? Something along those lines. DUmmies love mama government.

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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2016, 09:23:44 AM »
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 :rotf: :lol: :rotf: :lol: :rotf: :lol: :rotf: :lol:  :rotf:

Yeah, like Judy, who gets a lot more from others than what she gives them, and then thinks it isn't enough, isn't her "fair share," isn't greedy.....

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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2016, 09:30:02 AM »

    DUmmy logic:

    "You have X and you want X + Y. You are greedy. You are mentally ill."

    "I have nothing and I want X. I am noble. Give me X, and I'll take Y while I'm at it. I'm perfectly sane."
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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2016, 10:20:42 AM »
As Milton Friedman said. Who are these angels in government who are not going to be greedy with our money? Something along those lines. DUmmies love mama government.

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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2016, 10:39:28 AM »
The hifiguy primitive has become one of my favorites. Claims to be an Aspie and most definitely is someone who has been led to believe they're highly intelligent, but isn't. Guy wouldn't last 2 seconds in real life with me.

He sorta reminds me of the thomas_paine primitive of island personalities past who used a word "Bushevic" countless times in his postings. Always fun to watch the perpetually angry, especially when they think they're smart, which this hifiguy fool believes himself to be.

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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2016, 11:09:54 AM »
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11. I am uncertain if it is a mental illness

I think it is a moral failing and were I a religious person, I think that the rich would have a hard time in any afterlife for failing to give this fortune away or for amassing this in the first place ("Behind every great fortune is a great crime." Balzac). I think the rich should pay a much higher tax rate and there should be a 99% tax on income, assets, and inheritance over a certain amount (don't know what that amount is but I'm sure we could figure that out).

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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2016, 11:10:04 AM »
The hifiguy primitive has become one of my favorites. Claims to be an Aspie and most definitely is someone who has been led to believe they're highly intelligent, but isn't. Guy wouldn't last 2 seconds in real life with me.

He sorta reminds me of the thomas_paine primitive of island personalities past who used a word "Bushevic" countless times in his postings. Always fun to watch the perpetually angry, especially when they think they're smart, which this hifiguy fool believes himself to be.

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:hi5:  Well, .....he's used to fooling these idiots, which is a snap using their trigger words.

"Greed".  *ding*



I wonder where his tin foil buddy, Osmosis, is?
              

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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2016, 11:16:10 AM »
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11. I am uncertain if it is a mental illness

I think it is a moral failing and were I a religious person, I think that the rich would have a hard time in any afterlife for failing to give this fortune away or for amassing this in the first place

Oh, you are deeply religious.  You, are simply too stupid to realize it.



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("Behind every great fortune is a great crime." Balzac)

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I think the rich should pay a much higher tax rate and there should be a 99% tax on income, assets, and inheritance over a certain amount (don't know what that amount is but I'm sure we could figure that out).

Kulaks, anyone?   :lmao:  ...and what are you going to do the next year, Idiot?
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Liberal thinking is a two-legged stool and magical thinking is one of the legs, the other is a combination of self-loating and misanthropy.  To understand it, you would have to be able to sit on that stool while juggling two elephants, an anvil and a fragmentation grenade, sans pin.

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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2016, 11:17:20 AM »
    DUmmy logic:

    "You have X and you want X + Y. You are greedy. You are mentally ill.""

    "I have nothing and I want X. I am noble. Give me X, and I'll take Y while I'm at it. I'm perfectly sane."

It's worse than that.

DUmmy logic: "You own X. If you want to keep X, then you are greedy. Desire to keep your own property is a mental illness.
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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2016, 01:40:19 PM »
Fine as long as we make sloth and laziness felonies.
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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2016, 02:05:18 PM »
This bit of silliness is all but self-mocking.
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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2016, 04:49:23 PM »
Why oh why can't the dem party give these (D)Ummies jobs...Speaking publicly in favor of democrats...


They'd do a better job for conservatives than any attack add ever could.


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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #15 on: February 04, 2016, 04:54:49 PM »
Why oh why can't the dem party give these (D)Ummies jobs...Speaking publicly in favor of democrats...


They'd do a better job for conservatives than any attack add ever could.


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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2016, 05:09:50 PM »
Why oh why can't the dem party give these (D)Ummies jobs...Speaking publicly in favor of democrats...


They'd do a better job for conservatives than any attack add ever could.


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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #17 on: February 04, 2016, 09:06:14 PM »
Dude, school is two weeks in, you need to chill with the weed and hit the books.     

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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #18 on: February 05, 2016, 06:41:56 AM »
These same DUmmies are the ones who believe that pedophilia should no longer be regarded as a mental illness.

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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #19 on: February 05, 2016, 08:38:11 AM »
DU and its inhabitants should be treated as a mental illness.  In fact, it should be treated as a case study on mental illness.

DU should also be credited for its racist, bigoted, and hateful tendencies by the SPLC

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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #20 on: February 05, 2016, 09:18:01 AM »
My wife has said, on more than one occasion, that a PhD. student in psychology could write a thesis on "the DU," and easily get their degree.


     I think someone did, at some point, but it wasn't all that laudatory.
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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #21 on: February 05, 2016, 09:24:50 AM »
Every now and then the mask slips and we see the monster inside.  This desire to punish those who merely disagree has been seen before. It is the same mindset that brought the bloody purge in Stalinist Russia.  Everything they wish for here was soviet policy against its own citizens.

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« Reply #22 on: February 05, 2016, 04:26:49 PM »
Every now and then the mask slips and we see the monster inside.  This desire to punish those who merely disagree has been seen before. It is the same mindset that brought the bloody purge in Stalinist Russia.  Everything they wish for here was soviet policy against its own citizens.

     What is different in this case, and in this age, is the complete and utter lack of balls on the part of any and every Democrat. When I start thinking that Democrats pose an existential threat to anyone, anywhere, I just remind myself that "activism" to them means posting on an exclusive message board, and "direct action" to them means creating a "devastating" meme and praying to God that Jon Stewart sees it on Imgur. "Advocacy" to a liberal means urging other poor people to give money to pedophiles, and "research" means glancing at the blatherings of someone so insecure in his knowledge and intellect that he has to call himself "the Science Guy."

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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #23 on: February 05, 2016, 06:52:59 PM »


The inadequate, liberal male fears and wants to hurt the men that they perceive as more powerful.  The money is symbolic of male power.  To a liberal, a man with too much power must have that power reduced or taken away.  The powerful man must be castrated.  And the urgency behind it, ie wall street MUST be stopped.  Or the 1 percent are evil!  The urgency is that the powerful must be castrated BEFORE they castrate us.  Because of zero sum game.  When one man wins, another loses, the rich need to lose, we need to win.  Fear those who succeed.  When this stuff is deep in the liberal male psyche, that's what is called an unresolved oedipal complex.  That's why anything and everything that threatens true masculinity comes solely from the left.   

I think the resolved oedipal complex leaves a boy realizing that while he can't have what his father has ie the mother, he is just like his dad, and can obtain the same kind of power in his own life. Maybe the liberal male never realizes this, never realizes that they desire power and they can obtain power.  Instead, they spend their lives feeling powerless next to those they deem powerful, and want to reduce and castrate those who are powerful. 

I've heard with my own ears a liberal professor saying that the idea of "pulling yourself up by your boot straps" is racist.  Because not everyone can....ie white privilege etc etc.  Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is the main way a man can obtain power.  take your life into your own hands.  Fight the unfairness of society, dont complain about it, and secure your place in the world.  Forget about what other people have, concentrate on yourself.  Yet the liberal not only says that is not the way, but that to even suggest it is racist or in other words, evil.

So all these asshats who never fully realized the power that they could have and obtain on their own, they work to make society easier, more inclusive, less masculine, and more unfriendly to those who want to excel or who have excelled.

tl:dr liberalism is a result of serious mental dysfunction.

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Re: Is it finally time for greed to be treated as a mental illness?
« Reply #24 on: February 05, 2016, 06:58:19 PM »

The inadequate, liberal male fears and wants to hurt the men that they perceive as more powerful.  The money is symbolic of male power.  To a liberal, a man with too much power must have that power reduced or taken away.  The powerful man must be castrated.  And the urgency behind it, ie wall street MUST be stopped.  Or the 1 percent are evil!  The urgency is that the powerful must be castrated BEFORE they castrate us.  Because of zero sum game.  When one man wins, another loses, the rich need to lose, we need to win.  Fear those who succeed.  When this stuff is deep in the liberal male psyche, that's what is called an unresolved oedipal complex.  That's why anything and everything that threatens true masculinity comes solely from the left.   

I think the resolved oedipal complex leaves a boy realizing that while he can't have what his father has ie the mother, he is just like his dad, and can obtain the same kind of power in his own life. Maybe the liberal male never realizes this, never realizes that they desire power and they can obtain power.  Instead, they spend their lives feeling powerless next to those they deem powerful, and want to reduce and castrate those who are powerful. 

I've heard with my own ears a liberal professor saying that the idea of "pulling yourself up by your boot straps" is racist.  Because not everyone can....ie white privilege etc etc.  Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is the main way a man can obtain power.  take your life into your own hands.  Fight the unfairness of society, dont complain about it, and secure your place in the world.  Forget about what other people have, concentrate on yourself.  Yet the liberal not only says that is not the way, but that to even suggest it is racist or in other words, evil.

So all these asshats who never fully realized the power that they could have and obtain on their own, they work to make society easier, more inclusive, less masculine, and more unfriendly to those who want to excel or who have excelled.

tl:dr liberalism is a result of serious mental dysfunction.

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