A character who enjoys inflicting pain, physical or emotional, on another.
automatic category suggestion for empathy: 51 out of 50
A character who enjoys inflicting pain, physical or emotional, on another.
created: 28 March 15 at 07:45 PM (build: 3/26/2015 2:21 AM beta)
closed: 29 March 15 at 05:29 AM (build: 3/26/2015 2:45 AM beta)
I dug around the subject and here is the thing - technically, sadism is a pathological kind of empathy that is based on the fact that "empathy triggers" are interpreted properly, but the stimulation received by brain is quite different than it should. It is distinct enough from absolute lack of empathy in a very obvious way - person lacking any empathetic feelings might torture somebody for whatever reason they find, but won't feel the positive stimuli. They will be just inhumanly distant.
So as long as people don't try to use this to mark the fact that they enjoy some sadism-stuff as a fetish, we are in the clear, my previous objections are baseless apart from mentioned specific case.
Wrecked Avent Site Administrator
A sadist doesn't necessarily get sexual enjoyment out of inflicting pain on others, so I'm not sure we should be worried about that confrontation being too strong. It certainly is there, but we already have a pain interest which can be set appropriately.
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