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Al68 said:I consider the inability to comprehend how depriving people of their liberty is harming them to be "nutty". That was my technical word for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociopath" , ie a disregard for, and/or violation of the rights of others, and/or an associated lack of remorse/empathy for others.
Ooooooh... I'm familiar with ASP/ASPD/Sociopathy/Psychopathy (reverse time-line of the name). I'm not clear that Soros comes close to being sociopathic; he plans, he reflects, he learns from errors; simply lacking compassion (and I'm not saying that he does or doesn't) is not sociopathic. A decent, if VERY one-sided and simplistic view that hits all of the technical points approachably: 'Bad Boys, Bad Men: Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorder' ... just don't STOP there, or you'll have all kinds of wrong notions. Still, it's a good entry to the subject if it's not really your area of interest.
Anyway, given his past I see him as very ruthless, and obviously he has an immense ego, but no more so than many in finance, and certainly more philanthropic than many.
I'd add... "nuts" is usually reserved, when used at all, for those disorders which have elements of psychosis.
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