How Evil Are You?

"Shockingly Saintly"

"Do you ever find yourself walking on water? Because you are shockingly saintly. You are a chink of light in a dark world."

...but it's not cool to be nice, I'm such a loser.

a reply to: rexsblues

C'mon....how many goes did it take to get that?

The class is waiting

Joking...

Well done

Moderately nefarious..Heh,I thought I would rate higher.Guess I'm not that bad of a guy..

Hm. Infrequently Vile for me too.

~70% machiavellianism,

~60% narcissism,

~15% psychopathy.

Wait, what? That can't be right.

a reply to: swanne

Although it's just a fun, time-waster, like a word search, it's beginning to look like the survey's results are inconsistent or very basically graded against a handful of outcomes.

Compare your percentages to mine. How can such a wide spread of scores express the same result?

They just asked the wrong questions.

a reply to: reldra

im a virgo too so whats all that got to do with it?

a reply to: Kandinsky

Yes, I agree. This quiz has way too narrow outcomes. I personally know first hand that I have way more of one of the three points, but I feel that those who developed did not take some variables such as empathy into consideration. Empathy and psychopathy are not mutually exclusive, in fact they can actually go in-hand.

Those who designed the quiz seem to think that evilness is, exclusively, "the desire to tell other people what to do". Which is a very bad definition (no pun intended! )...

Anyway, as you said, it's just a fun time-waster.

a reply to: swanne

I read a paper that (iirc) was something like a metastudy on research into psychopathy. The authors made a good argument that we score for psychopathy by identifying traits associated with lack of empathy, amorality etc. We measure them according to the consensus of what constitutes the spectrum of abnormal psychology etc.

However, the study indicated that 'psychopaths' operate on a level of empathy and morality that might not share the same reference points as the rest of the population. There were interviews with imprisoned psychopaths wherein superficial questioning proved that, yes siree, they were ruthless and amoral. Deeper, lateral questioning uncovered *why* they had done what they'd done and there were nuances of empathy and morality in there.

It might just amount to humanising character-types with a higher tendency towards cruelty. It's still interesting to add dimensions to a sub-section of the population who would typically be regarded as one-dimensionally evil.

a reply to: Kandinsky

Indeed. And remember that empathy is in itself not a guarantee of benevolence. Empathy is simply the ability to predict what the other is (or will be) feeling in the face of given conditions. Empathy can act as a tool for both good or evil.

I'm Infrequently Vile, apparently

You are infrequently vile - you mostly put others before yourself, though you may find occasions in which your dark side shines

I don't know how to work out the percentage thingy but quite high Machiavellianism, low Narcissism and lower Psycopathy.


Thanks - that was amusing.

Decidedly dastardly

You are decidedly dastardly. But do you use your dark personality for good, like James Bond, or evil, like Dr No?


Mahahahaha I knew when I grew my Dick Dastardly tash I would become more evil Mahahahahahahaa.

Infrequently Vile. It appears to be common here, which wouldn't be surprising considering that places tend to attract like-minded people.

Seems close enough, I guess. Though I do personally think I'm mostly a good person. I'd describe myself as a white plain scarred with a single, bottomless ravine. I'm almost always nice, but if I go dark, I go really dark.

a reply to: rukia


Shockingly Saintly!

Like I really needed a quiz to figure that out!

I too, am Shockingly Saintly. Don't need no stinkin' test to know that. (kidding)



* I really think it had to do with manipulating others to suit your own needs. My thoughts have always been, if you manipulate people to get your own way, what have you really gained? So, I don't. (Other than children to get them to behave.) Like saying, if you will be quiet in the waiting room, afterwards we will go get ice cream. Manipulation successful!

But that's as far as I go. Of course I call it "positive reinforcement" but really it's manipulation.

a reply to: ladyinwaiting

The issue with questionnaires like these, and indeed most questionnaires in general, is that the choices are too binary and somehow both too specific and not specific enough.

Maybe I like to manipulate people, but not for my own (selfish) ends.
Maybe it's not that I don't like having sex with strangers, but are just disinterested in sex in general, beyond the biological compulsions.
Maybe it's not that I think it's wise to not tell your secrets, it's that I think you should tell your secrets but only to the people you trust unconditionally.
Maybe it's not that I avoid direct conflict with people not because they might be useful in the future, but because I don't want to greatly hurt them.

So on, and so forth.

a reply to: Eilasvaleleyn

Obviously the test is highly flawed, as with other internet "quizzes". Internet entertainment. Also the makers of the quiz must be quite evil, as it is highly manipulative in itself -- it wants you to be "evil".

*no offense to OP. It was fun, and I enjoyed seeing my characterization.

a reply to: ladyinwaiting

All personality tests are inherently flawed. While they can be quite accurate, perfect results can never be obtained because you would literally need to ask an infinite number of questions.

a reply to: zazzafrazz

likewise.

originally posted by: rukia
Hey guys, take this QUIZ.

It's pretty neat. Here are my results:

So, I'm an ENTJ--and I've also taken that Hare Psychopathy test, which I scored moderately on.

The reason why I posted this thread--to help remind everyone that we are all a little bit evil if we are really being honest with ourselves. So that's why we have to actively try to do good. But when people start freaking out about all of the evil in the world, they should really be freaking out about all of the evil inside of themselves, first. And it's not something you can escape--you're going to have to deal with it. Anyway, I think being honest with yourself is probably one of the most important things that one can do in order to build a sense of integrity in one's life.

Also, going back to the whole psychopathy thing, I recommend you take a few moments to watch this spectacular TED Talk.

Questions? Comments? Let's chat.

Humans are not born evil, if you are honest to yourself and find that you are evil then that should be alarming to you. If it's not then there is a severe case of disassociative personality disorder occuring in your psyche.

A man is only as evil as he is lacking in reason. Any individual would naturally return to goodness, to sanity, to wisdom if they would seek to realign their entire being using only their faculties of reason. The entire universe itself is an intricate balance of reasoned existence. If it were not, it would not be.

Everything is only as evil to the extent that it is unreasonable. Therefore evil--unreasonable thoughts, words, and actions can only manifest in the absence of good--reasoned thoughts, words, and actions. Just as hatred only manifests in a man who is absent of love.

Does it ever occur to man the reason why all great minds throughout history have spent their time in deep contemplation i.e meditation? Because concentration is the projection of reasoning, both internally and externally, and by concentrating long enough on anything man finds that he falls in love with reason--the creator of all good, the only good, the very essence of good.

So few people have it in them to understand what this means, our hearts and minds have become blinded by our susceptibility to the unreasonable conditions of modern man.