Impulse control disorder

Helen: What a disgusting devastation! Seriously – if some crazed arsonist torches a garden shed, the community buzzes with excitement, but large-scale industrial slash-and-burn hardly gets a public outcry. To me, people who destroy the environment are little better than horrible psychopaths.
Conrad: You’re not the only one who thinks so. Indeed, scientists have labelled top managers “successful psychopaths” because the similarities are so obvious. More or less, their personality profiles are defined by psychopathic traits: arrogant egocentrism, minimal empathy, ruthless ambition, and a lack of social responsibility.
Sophie: You forgot one big parallel. A psychopath can’t control his antisocial impulses; likewise, the current corporate culture doesn’t allow for any moral regulation of its harmful strategies.
Helen: Exactly what I’m saying – these types are driven. They keep going as if there was no tomorrow, never come to their senses, never connect with their environment, let alone appreciate its diversity. To them, it’s simply a playground to flatten and replace with some barren commercial project.
Kate: Blaming the capitalists for everything is a bit of a cop-out, though. It distracts from how much we personally bear responsibility for exploiting nature. Even the CEOs are mere facilitators for our own out-of-control consumerism.
Robert: True, but they’ll use any manipulative trick in the book to fuel that greed. Ads constantly push products as status symbols until we tie our self-worth to what we own. At the same time, sales tactics trigger impulsive buys while misinformation makes it harder to judge what we’re buying.
Kate: So, when is this disastrous cycle between profit-vultures and consumption junkies finally going to end?
Fred: You’re looking at it – when our natural resources are completely trashed.