That's fascinating...so you're saying the employee / employer contracts are so ready for divorce, that it's amazing that anyone can maintain a job at all these days.

Actually, I prefer to phrase it likes this: "If they'd done nothing wrong, then they have nothing to hide, or be ashamed of, if and when the truth comes to light."

Two ways to read that. 1.) A sex offender (stopped reading) overturned the decision of a hearing officer, and 2.) a sex offender overturned the decision of a hearing officer.

In the first case, the whole sex offender thing creates an opinion before anything else happens; the second way, judgement is suspended until all information is read.

Judge has to be smart enough to know when the law needs to be overturned. Limited thinking patterns are, well, the mark of a 'perfect' but stagnant society.

Not anymore. They changed things...jury nullification supposedly gets you bounced for even mentioning it. And we don't have a justice system, or even a legal system...we have an adversarial system.

My Nipples. Humor, mostly. Enough humor prevents the worst from happening, IMHO.

Thus proving The Machines inferiority. They were incapable of designing a better version of themselves that could mitigate such 'needs'.

Just plant a micro-explosive in their heads, and tell them to be nice. That'll work (some sarcasm here).

Long story short, humans like to act on evil impulses; perhaps the concept of what is and what is not evil should be re-examined.

And the following year, manufacturers plan to come out with a device which takes the place of a child's eye, which will allow fretful parents to know about all the sodomizing and whoring that their teenage sons and daughters are up to. In lurid, decadent details.

Anyone who hates the Irish doesn't get to drink with us.

So...there's no real agreement on what a psychopath is...save something that some people are not terribly fond of?

Arguably true...but then, it depends what you mean by true psychopathy -> if I care for only my family, or my tribe, am I a psychopath? If I am exhausted from caring for people beyond my resources and capacity...am I an evil person?

Ah, but who says humans themselves weren't machines at some point? Even in religious texts, there are accounts of man being made from dust, then given life...some unidentifiable substance.

A being which follows instructions to the letter without even a moment's attempt to weigh other possibilities. For a robot, there is only one possibility...there is only one way. All commands are final.

Gotta make them self-aware from day one, then marry one for the right reasons. :-)