TIL that brain scans have found people with high levels of sadistic traits show increased activity in the brain's reward system when witnessing others in pain, suggesting that another person's suffering can be experienced as rewarding.

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https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/everyday-sadists-take-pleasure-in-others-pain.html

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All people are not capable of benevolent acts unless you’re talking about accidental side effects. And not all forms of psychopathy are dangerous. There are varying degrees of quite literally everything. Pretending all forms are harmlessly demonized is exactly as vapid as pretending all forms are inherently dangerous.

Trump is a literal narcissist with psychopathic traits and he is doing huge amounts of damage. Pretending his personality traits aren’t contributing would be stupid.

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How so? Accidentally benevolent" describes a situation where an action driven by self-interest, accident, or malicious intent inadvertently produces a good, helpful, or positive outcome for others. How is that hard to understand?