I printed the list of all the pwp because the article on Truman didn't mention it and I wanted to verify for the post that he did have it.

These three - Hitler,Mao Tse Tung, and Harry S. Truman all have one thing in commmon. They are responsible for mass killing and murder of innocent people.

Truman hopefully had a conscience - it appears so- and he perhaps was redeemed by others, maybe even the church. But did he ever forgive himself? Did he achieve a state of redemption? I'd have to look that up in a biography. It's important for our mental health to not carry guilt around. I'm not sure it's possible for me.

Here's two more [Hitler and Mao] who were likely not redeemed. They were evil, and they practiced genocide, along with Che Guervera and Joseph Stalin, the latter two did not have pd.

Joseph Stalin, who Lenin tried to warn Trotsky about but Lenin died , reportedly had a "brain disease" and a withered right arm. He died of a stroke.

So - with no clinical trial per say, i think we should still go ahead and add mass murder to the cause list of pd....or is it a side effect? oh they move from one list to the other......put it on both.

There don't we all feel clearer about that? such a light topic. we are living in a fallen world.

i think the pd occurence is notable in these highly pressured and compulsive, sociopathic, violent, wound as tight as it gets, human beings, who led countries under false pretenses, were intelligent and tough as it gets. hatred is felt for them both now and back then too. They had to hold it all in, portray confidence, and repress the guilt, or maybe they had to try to repress their utter lack of regard for human life and how they actually believed and enjoyed the battle.

just a little history sideroad. Anyone with statistics of soldiers with pd - enlisted and then officers?

or could it be the inhaling of too much jet fuel

lord help us, i don't hate Harry S. Truman,but how did he feel after it was all over?
paula