This does not strike me as a psychologically realistic model of sadism, and (absent further explanation/justification) counts in my opinion as a rather large strike against mistake theory (or at least, it would if I took as given that a plurality of self-proclaimed “mistake theorists” would in fact endorse the statement you made).
This does not strike me as a psychologically realistic model of sadism, and (absent further explanation/justification) counts in my opinion as a rather large strike against mistake theory (or at least, it would if I took as given that a plurality of self-proclaimed “mistake theorists” would in fact endorse the statement you made).