Reykjavik, Iceland – The government of Iceland passed a measure today banning sociopaths from holding jobs in the government. The new statute dubbed The Anti-Trump Decree takes effect immediately and covers both elected and non-elected positions.
Prime Minister Andrew Canard remarked on this step forward. “We keep looking at how the wheels have fallen off the car in America. Our citizens are determined to protect our way of life from power-hungry politicians who have no empathy
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Iceland Bans Sociopaths from Government
*Note: This is a satirical video*
Iceland is the land of religious freedom for atheists. In this promotional video, the country of Iceland boasts its natural wonders and how it has a travel ban on televangelists and a warning label on every Bible.
They are the descendants of pillaging Viking sociopaths.
ReplyDeleteWill they vote for reparations for their victims?
Crikey, yeah, what a turn around. They caused Britain no end of problems.
DeleteChristianity got around to taming the foul-smelling Vikings in the 10th century.
DeleteNo, seriously -- you read all the medieval accounts of the Vikings and they not only mention the terror they inflicted, but also how awful they smelled.
Bit of a blow for Adam Smith!
ReplyDelete“The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security is so powerful a principle that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often incumbers its operations; though the effect of these obstructions is always more or less either to encroach upon its freedom, or to diminish its security.“
— Adam Smith Source: (1776), The Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter V, paragraph 82.
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