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I like the sentiment.

A tangent thought: I think the nice/jerk dichotomy/model is somewhat misleading. It's really compressing two separate axis into one. I think a better way to think about it is this: you have a kind-unkind axis and a dominant-weak axis; and "nice" tends to be in the kind/weak sector while "jerk" tends to be dominant/unkind sector. You still have two other sectors though, and I think that's really where you're going to find your heroes/villains.



`troll' would be the unkind/weak, and `leader' would be the kind/dominant, right?


Rick Perry: cruel, dominant.

Newt Gingrich: cruel, weak.

Mitt Romney: kind, weak.

Ron Paul: kind, dominant.

(Actually, I'm probably trying to fit square pegs in round holes here. Ignore.)




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