[Edited to add a trigger warning for “one of the worst examples of evil”.]
You’re obviously right that personality is on a spectrum, but there’s still a tail!
There are people who try to get children on the internet to send them embarrassing photos, then extort the child with the material to perform sex acts or sadistic acts with siblings and record video, escalating into increasingly more sadistic and power-tripping stuff (like cutting themselves and writing with blood), after each time lying about the last ask having been the last, until often the children involved commit suicide because it doesn’t stop.
You can read in prosecutions that the perpetrators communicate with each other about the pleasure they take in it. Whatever you want to call these people, “concern for some conscious entities is zero or negative” describes the situation accurately, and the original quote you’re replying to was about that, not about whether Hare’s checklist carves nature at its joints.
[Edited to add a trigger warning for “one of the worst examples of evil”.]
You’re obviously right that personality is on a spectrum, but there’s still a tail!
There are people who try to get children on the internet to send them embarrassing photos, then extort the child with the material to perform sex acts or sadistic acts with siblings and record video, escalating into increasingly more sadistic and power-tripping stuff (like cutting themselves and writing with blood), after each time lying about the last ask having been the last, until often the children involved commit suicide because it doesn’t stop.
You can read in prosecutions that the perpetrators communicate with each other about the pleasure they take in it. Whatever you want to call these people, “concern for some conscious entities is zero or negative” describes the situation accurately, and the original quote you’re replying to was about that, not about whether Hare’s checklist carves nature at its joints.