>>12117296>Psychopaths have cold empathy, which is just empathy minus an emotive component. They wouldn't be able to effectively manipulate and take sadistic pleasure without intellectual understanding of emotions. Psychopathy goes well beyond a lack of empathy, as well. You have primary psychopathy and secondary.>>physically unable to empathize>This would be accurate if you switched the words around. Psychopaths are unable to physically empathize. Without a bodily experience, there is no empathy.This is kind of me. I try to live ethically (by my subjective interpretation of ethics) but my empathy is all intellectual and not at all emotional. I just have some inherent rational aversion to the idea of bad things happening to people who don't deserve it and think suffering is generally bad, even though this is just thought instead of felt. It's not really a selfish "I wouldn't want it to happen to me", I just know sentient entities don't deserve and shouldn't experience suffering unless they've deliberately inflicted it on others (and even then it's of course complicated and proportional).
At the same time, I'm a very strong believer in punitive and retributive justice. I feel intense, sadistic pleasure when someone I believe has certainly deserved a punishment experiences it, especially eye-for-an-eye style when something they do unexpectedly turns back on them. The other day I heard an interview with that nutjob edgelord Lindsay Souvannarath describe her Columbiner e-boyfriend blowing his head off hours before she was going to meet him and tell him she loved him for the first time, and now she'll probably die a virgin, and that was like meth to me.
I know plenty of regular people feel similarly about retribution, but this literally brings me more satisfaction and pleasurable than anything else in the world, to the point that I've engaged in hundreds of acts of vigilantism and sadism.
Writing this out, I guess maybe I do have some psychopathic tendencies.
