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I tend to care about people's well being except for when I am horny and I want them to feel some kind of pain to get me off. Once I finish I seem to go back to being a empathetic person again. It's like a split personality. Does anyone else have this?
All sadists are empathetic, otherwise they’d get no rise out of people’s upset reactions. Because it is a sexual attraction to the persons “reaction” to pain, not the actual causing of pain.
There are two kinds of empathy, cognitive and affective. They only possess the first. Cognitive empathy is abundant in them, but they lack affective empathy almost entirely.
Basically, they can often tell what you’re feeling when face to face almost better than you can yourself...but do not feel anything about what they’re noticing the person.
While they could certainly find some people who’ve knows them that would swear it was a split personality, the truth is not nearly that interesting.
In actuality it is not on display while interacting with most people as that would not be socially functional behaviour to exhibit constantly.
So there’s no split, it’s just compartmentalisation. Something we all do.
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"Does anyone else have this?"
Kind of. I feel empathetic for my loved ones/the meek/the elderly, but if I don't know someone then they could get hit by a car & I wouldn't bat an eye & if I don't like them then I would enjoy watching them get hurt & If I was the one hurting them then I would be euphoric. But I never feel any sexual pleasure from it (or anything else or that matter).