ouch wrote:
Anyways, psychopaths can care about others feelings, they just most likely don't feel any sense of empathy. This doesn't mean they can't care abt others feelings if it benefits themselves. So say they are a sadist, if it benefits them that someone else feels bad (pretty much what sadism is) they can still be a psychopath, you don't need empathy to be sadistic.
However, this does not need to mean all psychopaths are able to be sadistic, it depends on if they disregard others feelings completely or just when it doesn't benefit themselves.Â
There are also different kinds of empathy, there is reflex empathy which happens automatically, and there is cognitive empathy which means knowing how someone else feels. Psychopaths do mostly have cognitive empathy.
so yes, psychopathy can be comorbid with sadism, tho it is not that common as one might think by the common misconseption of psychopathsÂ