Last week Chaput approvingly quoted a friend who described this year's presidential election as a choice between "a vulgar, boorish lout and disrespecter of women with a serious impulse control problem" and "a scheming, robotic liar with a lifelong appetite for power and an entourage riddled with anti-Catholic bigots".
Some Westerners in Afghanistan who are monitoring the security transition saw the parliamentary vote as demonstrating a good impulse to improve two powerful ministries, but one with serious pitfalls.
But some of these concerns — not least, the dilemma of how to steer between the Scylla of vapid negativity and the Charybdis of vacuous cheerleading — become moot when you think back to the impulse that lies behind serious criticism: the impulse to analyze, to explain, to teach, to judge meaningfully.
Francis James Child said that Lowell, whom he deemed was typically "perverse," was able to "persist in being serious contrary to his impulses and his talents".
Intrinsically motivating beliefs may fail to motivate under conditions of extreme exhaustion, serious depression, or overwhelming contrary impulses (Shafer-Landau 2003, 147 148).
In 2011, an unnamed Swiss man figured out that the Slovak man he had been discussing fantasies with was serious about acting on his impulses and turned their meet-up into a police sting, resulting in the wannabe eater's death in a gun battle.
Suicidal thoughts and impulses are very serious.
These people have deep and serious psychological and psychopathic (sociopathic) impulses, and these become harder and harder to control over time.
Even if your instincts are telling you that you do not wish to call so much attention to yourself, suicidal impulses are very serious, and you should never hesitate to reach out for help.
