Comments on: The Personality Test that Pulls No Punches http://www.adammessinger.com/2004/12/11/blunt-personality-test Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:56:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Adam Messinger http://www.adammessinger.com/2004/12/11/blunt-personality-test#comment-18413 Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:08:09 +0000 http://www.adammessinger.com/2004/12/11/blunt-personality-test#comment-18413 I'd have to disagree about depravity and purpose, Dave. It's perfectly possible for one to have a noble goal in mind, but achieve it by despicable means. The most depraved person is the most depraved person, period. Depravity as a variable of personality is independent from one's goals. The most <em>dangerous</em> person is a depraved person with a strong since of purpose. <blockquote> The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. --- Brandeis </blockquote> I’d have to disagree about depravity and purpose, Dave. It’s perfectly possible for one to have a noble goal in mind, but achieve it by despicable means.

The most depraved person is the most depraved person, period. Depravity as a variable of personality is independent from one’s goals. The most dangerous person is a depraved person with a strong since of purpose.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

— Brandeis

]]> by: Dave Boyle http://www.adammessinger.com/2004/12/11/blunt-personality-test#comment-18297 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 04:11:05 +0000 http://www.adammessinger.com/2004/12/11/blunt-personality-test#comment-18297 I have read quite a bit of Ayn Rand, although it was ages ago (when I was in the Army in 1960). I remember one of her statements (she always made "satements") in Atlas Shrugged, which went something like this: "The most depraved person is the man without a purpose". Wrong as usual. The most depraved person is the person with the most depraved purpose. I have read quite a bit of Ayn Rand, although it was ages ago (when I was in the Army in 1960). I remember one of her statements (she always made “satements”) in Atlas Shrugged, which went something like this:

“The most depraved person is the man without a purpose”.

Wrong as usual. The most depraved person is the person with the most depraved purpose.

]]> by: Jen http://www.adammessinger.com/2004/12/11/blunt-personality-test#comment-982 Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:06:01 +0000 http://www.adammessinger.com/2004/12/11/blunt-personality-test#comment-982 I think the SRCF is pretty accurate for you. And Ayn Rand scares the crap out of me. I think the SRCF is pretty accurate for you.
And Ayn Rand scares the crap out of me.

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