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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6652732" data-attributes="member: 177">Yep.  But I am not a mental health professional.  We should note that the "Dark Triad/Tetrad" model is a model for folks who are not "mentally ill" in the common sense.  It is more like a personality model than it is an illness model, if you get my meaning.I, at least, would find that likely - lack of accountability is a major enabler of ad behavior.Or at least it helps them conveniently ignore the fact, yes.  In addition, online interactions do an end-run around some of the feedback loops that govern thought, emotion, and behavior.  Healthy people react to vocal tone, facial expressions, and body language subconsciously.  Text-based communications do not engage some of your normal behavioral systems... so you behave differently, and even feel differently about those behaviors.So, from the reddit example - that man may actually be a perfectly fine human being in person.  He has empathy, and may actually care when dealing with people in the real world.  Remove the vocal tones and body language that tells him about the feelings of the other person... and he becomes a class-A jerk, because part of what makes him a nice guy isn't engaged any more.  He may honestly not have the feeling that they are human beings, because the buttons that tell him they are have not been pressed.Aside from the personal risk involved, and how it usually takes a significant amount of technical skill or knowledge to do so, you mean?Most of us require clear sanction from our community before we take action.  "War", for example, is such a sanction.  And note how rising up and taking out the bad guys, even with such sanction, has repercussion on us - things like PTSD.</blockquote>

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