They cannot notice what they don't have (emotions), or reflect on the same. However, they will often pursue behaviours which produces sensations. The two very real people who I think informed my perspective on psychopaths, one of them avoided pain at all costs (but very much enjoyed inflicting it on others - and the process of getting away with it), the other (the young bloke) appeared not to mind the sensation of having it inflicted on him. So, this is a difference in the sensations they were seeking. Sadistic versus masochistic. There were also multiple other differences between them including age and drug use. However, the one thing they have in common is lack of ability to feel emotions. Sensations, yes, but not emotions or empathy. This was completely beyond their ability.
Yes, but you've encountered a contrast that's easy to define. You're operating on two people, both of whom are quite open towards you. The problem is that there are so many people, they can always have different traits. Simply, you're doing a case study. But defining the entire issue on this basis would be a mistake in my opinion, although there may be similarities. It is always a certain prism.
What can I say? What if I met someone who had both traits? They enjoyed being hurt and loved inflicting it? And yet, they only hurt select people because they were able to refrain from inflicting it on others, which, incidentally, gave them a sense of self-control?
Or people who inflicted suffering only on those hostile to the pack? A bit like Dexter. Some physically, literally, while others, in fact, only in a general sense, based on intellectual terror?
What about people who have acted or still act like psychopaths for other reasons? And they don't necessarily even belong to the dark triad?
There are simply so many things possible, even psychology distinguishes types of psychopathy, not to mention the traits of a given personality.
If you have a look at what Dr Ramani has posted on YouTube, she talks about how people who are narcissists have disregulated and out of control emotions.
Okay. Sorry, but I'm not into looking it up on YT rn, I'm a bit fed up with video media. Then thanks for explaining.
Generally speaking, I don't know. If you're developing such a theory, you have to back it up with something. For now, you're constructing a thesis. I'd stick to the point that a given ideology or opportunity might be useful to them, but they would easily give up if it proved unhelpful.
I don't want to talk about her, because I don't know her, and I won't hold to a single statement, even from the Cassiopaeans. But I think of politicians who are sometimes in one faction, sometimes in another, sometimes even opposite ones. They easily fade into the background and operate there, or they don't emerge from the shadows. Or they do something else, moving to a different lobby. To me, it sounds more like adaptation and maneuvering, always taking advantage of opportunities and sort of finding themselves in a center of events. The difference between programming and this is probably a calculation of benefits. That is, it's probably not about loyalty to a given social group or ideology in the strict sense, but rather a calculation of benefits and losses while simultaneously allowing oneself more than the average person. But I'm just theorizing.
It's also important to remember that she's a woman in a political world dominated primarily by men. To find her place in this world, she needs to play along. However drastic it sounds in its context, the stronger wins.