Status Updates From The Dark Sides of Empathy

Sadism is not the product of a lack of empathy but rather emerges from the wish for its intensification. Horrible fantasies (and perhaps actions) are possible because of empathy..such aberrations are not limited to a few problematic individuals...there is a “normal” or “tolerated” form of sadism that takes the form of pressuring, exposing, or embarrassing others in order to predict and understand their feelings