--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "> Enjoying pain implies empathy, just inverted." > > > No. That is not how they are processing it according to this author. > A sadist may operate the way you describe, from empathy. > But the result is that sociopaths experience pleasure in tormenting > others as if it is a game and they are winning. Are you arguing points > from a book you haven't read? The Amazon quote is not enough > information. If you are arguing from another source expert on > sociopaths let me know I would like to read it. >
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~mcafee/Bin/sb.html Deliberately causing pain for the sake of pain seems outside the definition given above. I can accept that causing pain might be a power-trip/game for them. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/