OtherwiseOlive9447
OtherwiseOlive9447 t1_jchujyg wrote
Reply to People with dark personality traits are better in finding novel ways to cause damage or harm others: Study reveals that people with more pronounced dark personality traits tend to have more malevolent creativity by DreamingForYouAlways
I call it having a “bad idea machine” in one’s head. The ideas/desires are ego-syntonic, thrive in the absence of a conscience (super-ego), and is often hyper-activated by opportunity (natural disasters/access to large amounts of money), lack of parental supervision (for youths) or the perceived weakness/vulnerability of potential victims. For some of these people, scheming and planning are indistinguishable, and novel ideas can arise in some. The rest are stuck simply repeating well worn scams, which can still hurt others.
OtherwiseOlive9447 t1_jck3p8c wrote
Reply to comment by Internauta29 in People with dark personality traits are better in finding novel ways to cause damage or harm others: Study reveals that people with more pronounced dark personality traits tend to have more malevolent creativity by DreamingForYouAlways
Not exactly my experience as I’ve seen many very young children whose bad ideas are quite qualitatively different from others well before we expect moral conditioning (super-ego) to restrain them.