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Comment author: ESRogs 13 January 2012 01:01:40AM 3 points [-]

I'm pretty sure a larger than normal fraction of people that rule us are sociopaths.

What makes you think that? I'd have guessed that a lot of the non-optimal decisions made by people in various positions of power are the result of normal human biases mixed with whatever incentives pertain to their situation.