Dominators - Oppressors

Independent statistics show that professions with most scope for authority
attract abusive personality types.


Policemen who display domineering or 'bossy' traits may become antisocial
physical abusers - especially of minority groups.


Lawyers who abuse their position financially or physically become systematic
fraudsters. A citizen is more likely to be robbed by a lawyer than by anyone
else.


Doctors / psychiatrists who misuse their power, who may become systematic
abusers. Mental and sexual abuse not unknown among doctors, common in
'psychiatry' - where more power over the helpless


Helping organizations: care-workers, nurses, or attendants can become abusers
- bullies, torturers, sexual abusers and pedophile abusers, even serial
murderers. More common than we might think.


These cases don't represent the professions discussed, but indicate that an
unbalanced or abusive urge to power can often be found in volunteers for
authority.


We can say that typical antisocial abusers are motivated to -


a) achieve power in order to abuse it

b) abuse power for gratification and to achieve yet more power


It can be difficult or even pointless to differentiate between the two -
those who directly seek to harm people / those who seek authority over people.
Harmful outcomes - even case details - can be identical.


Volunteers for Authority

Many volunteer for authority for wrong reasons. Statistically, more bullies,
rapists, murderers and pedophiles are found in helping organizations, law,
police, church, bureaucracy, psychiatry, politicians, etc., than in the general
population.


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