Reading your comment, I realised one statement of mine may have been unclear. I wrote:
In the context of this post’s arguments, I’d guess it’s low affective empathy that is especially concerning, and perhaps especially when paired with high cognitive empathy
By that I just meant that, in terms of those two components of empathy, that might be the most concerning pattern. I didn’t meant to imply that that’s the key thing we should be concerned about in relation to personality traits more broadly—the idea that Dark Tetrad traits are a better focus seems reasonable to me (though I don’t bring much independent knowledge to the table on that point).
Interesting!
Reading your comment, I realised one statement of mine may have been unclear. I wrote:
By that I just meant that, in terms of those two components of empathy, that might be the most concerning pattern. I didn’t meant to imply that that’s the key thing we should be concerned about in relation to personality traits more broadly—the idea that Dark Tetrad traits are a better focus seems reasonable to me (though I don’t bring much independent knowledge to the table on that point).