A realistic imagining of a counterintuitive case, extreme in the hidden direction might be useful… For example, a psychopath that lacks empathy but understands that hurting others reduces their productivity, affect, and other factors that thereby reduce their value and production for the psychopath and the society in which the psychopath is embedded. Given this understanding the psychopath pursues the betterment of their fellow person even while finding manner by which to benefit themselves.
The question eventually becomes whether the label is about the underlying attribute propensity or reacting to that propensity in a way the consensus judges to badly far from maximizing.
I see as agreement with you adding embellishment.
A realistic imagining of a counterintuitive case, extreme in the hidden direction might be useful… For example, a psychopath that lacks empathy but understands that hurting others reduces their productivity, affect, and other factors that thereby reduce their value and production for the psychopath and the society in which the psychopath is embedded. Given this understanding the psychopath pursues the betterment of their fellow person even while finding manner by which to benefit themselves.
The question eventually becomes whether the label is about the underlying attribute propensity or reacting to that propensity in a way the consensus judges to badly far from maximizing.