23 Nov
2022
23 Nov
'22
2:23 a.m.
I read in a book once about engaging a kind of sadism (it was a pedophilia). The author spoke with the perpetrator in prison, and listened to them caringly. They had been raped by their father repeatedly, and had never found any empathy around this, and had processed it all their life by copying the behavior. Personally, from my experience and one or two people I've heard talk of it. being in situations like that can also have an influencing effect: the person doing it demands a story that validates what they are doing, and when there is great pain going on, that story is the only explanation available, and one can learn it very strongly.