The legal fiction is that corporations are people. If you examine them through that lens, then many of them can rightly be characterized as sociopaths. From Martin Hanson at off-guardian.org:
“…if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”
Winston Churchill spoke these words just before the Battle of Britain, but if he were alive today he could be referring to the Covid ‘pandemic’. His reference to “the lights of perverted science” would have rendered his words even more fitting in the fight against rule by Big Pharma.
In an earlier essay I argued that New Zealand, together with many other nominally ‘democratic’ countries, is fascist, and in a follow-up, I went on to argue that Pfizer and other Big Pharma corporations are organized crime networks operating what amounts to a global protection racket.
What I left unsaid was that Pfizer and other corporations are also sociopathic – the purpose of this essay.
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In an open letter to the CEO of the UK General Medical Council, Dr Aseem Malhotra, an internationally distinguished and award-winning cardiologist stated that [emphasis added]:
The diagnosis made by the pre-eminent forensic psychologist Dr Robert Hare and law professor Joel Bakan over 20 years ago is that Big Corporations (such as Big Pharma) are psychopathic in their pursuit of profit. Institutionally, they show the same characteristic behaviours as individuals with psychopathic tendencies: callous unconcern for the safety of others, incapacity to experience guilt, repeated lying and conning others for profit.”
