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Master Don Juan
So thanks to deesade I discovered a bunch of stuff from blogs like these. A whole bunch of very interesting content that as I prefer, goes beyond merely the "game" aspect and looks at civilization, history, psychology and biology.
In one of the articles (which I at first wasn't going to read because I thought it would just be a long whining rant) I found this passage:
"What I’m talking about is how a bad person ASSUMES other people (actually ALL people) are bad without seeing their behavior. They rationalize exploiting them, harming them etc. because they know they deserve it anyway. Either that or they reverse the meaning of right and wrong. As in, it’s a good thing to harm others if you can get away with it. It means you are strong and they are weak. This is at the core of why women are attracted to bad men (criminals, drug-users etc.) They see their doing bad things as evidence of them being powerful. They do those things because they can. This is probably the most dangerous lie involved in this situation. Bad people do bad things out of weakness, not strength. Women, being weak themselves, have no experience with this. Plus, they are self-deluded. They want to think of themselves as strong so they alter their perception to see being a bad person (ie, seeing someone who is just like them) as being strong, not weak. So, they look like someone who is exactly like themselves, only more so."
The thing that hit me immediately is that these supposed ways of female thinking correspond exactly to the way psychopaths think. Please do re-read it and let it sink in because it is a very striking similarity. I have spent some effort reading about psychopathy and when I read this passage it struck me as being so similar that I thought the author either drew it from psychopathy covertly, or was overtly going to make a comparison to it in the end of the text (which he didn't). I had flashbacks to scenes of psychopaths being interviewed. If it's true, it really has monstrous implications. My question is, is it true?
In one of the articles (which I at first wasn't going to read because I thought it would just be a long whining rant) I found this passage:
"What I’m talking about is how a bad person ASSUMES other people (actually ALL people) are bad without seeing their behavior. They rationalize exploiting them, harming them etc. because they know they deserve it anyway. Either that or they reverse the meaning of right and wrong. As in, it’s a good thing to harm others if you can get away with it. It means you are strong and they are weak. This is at the core of why women are attracted to bad men (criminals, drug-users etc.) They see their doing bad things as evidence of them being powerful. They do those things because they can. This is probably the most dangerous lie involved in this situation. Bad people do bad things out of weakness, not strength. Women, being weak themselves, have no experience with this. Plus, they are self-deluded. They want to think of themselves as strong so they alter their perception to see being a bad person (ie, seeing someone who is just like them) as being strong, not weak. So, they look like someone who is exactly like themselves, only more so."
The thing that hit me immediately is that these supposed ways of female thinking correspond exactly to the way psychopaths think. Please do re-read it and let it sink in because it is a very striking similarity. I have spent some effort reading about psychopathy and when I read this passage it struck me as being so similar that I thought the author either drew it from psychopathy covertly, or was overtly going to make a comparison to it in the end of the text (which he didn't). I had flashbacks to scenes of psychopaths being interviewed. If it's true, it really has monstrous implications. My question is, is it true?
