Well, I suppose the broader point I’m making is that it’s Sociopathy/Psychopathy.
The most harm done to people (I would even say, the most Evil) comes from people who couldn’t care less for how other people feel because they have no Empathy with other people’s suffering, and thus when they can will do whatever to others for their own personal upsides, even if those “upsides” are only satisfying their own personal petty psychological desires such as those you point out.
Hate actually involves some element of thinking of and caring about the other person (though a negative “caring”, of the “I want to make them suffer”), a kind of Evil which is very rare in real life even if it’s the most common in the movie “evil guy” stereotype.
As I’ve learned (from amongst other things working in the Finance Industry), the most common Evil is people knowingly doing things harmful to others to make money for themselves, get (more) power and influence or simply satisfy petty internal desires such as wanting to feel dominance over others (this later being, IMHO, the core of Moralism).
That’s fair, but we also don’t know that he doesn’t actively hate women. Just because you don’t want someone dead doesn’t mean you don’t have active hatred for them.
Most evil is banal, but quite a few people move to hating groups that they initially were hurting out of self interested gain. I’ve seen plenty of hate and it’s often a means of bypassing empathy for some reason or another
Well, I suppose the broader point I’m making is that it’s Sociopathy/Psychopathy.
The most harm done to people (I would even say, the most Evil) comes from people who couldn’t care less for how other people feel because they have no Empathy with other people’s suffering, and thus when they can will do whatever to others for their own personal upsides, even if those “upsides” are only satisfying their own personal petty psychological desires such as those you point out.
Hate actually involves some element of thinking of and caring about the other person (though a negative “caring”, of the “I want to make them suffer”), a kind of Evil which is very rare in real life even if it’s the most common in the movie “evil guy” stereotype.
As I’ve learned (from amongst other things working in the Finance Industry), the most common Evil is people knowingly doing things harmful to others to make money for themselves, get (more) power and influence or simply satisfy petty internal desires such as wanting to feel dominance over others (this later being, IMHO, the core of Moralism).
That’s fair, but we also don’t know that he doesn’t actively hate women. Just because you don’t want someone dead doesn’t mean you don’t have active hatred for them.
Most evil is banal, but quite a few people move to hating groups that they initially were hurting out of self interested gain. I’ve seen plenty of hate and it’s often a means of bypassing empathy for some reason or another