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[Jungian Cognitive Functions] IXFPs are surprisingly capable of tremendous acts of evil

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I read somewhere that IXFP’s are surprisingly capable of tremendous acts of evil - more so than any other type. However they tend to be incapable of bringing these realities to fruition. It's an Fi dom thing that is at the root of this.

Any truth to this? Thoughts/opinions?
 
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I read somewhere that ISXP’s are surprisingly capable of tremendous acts of evil - more so than any other type. However they tend to be incapable of bringing these realities to fruition. It's an Fi dom thing that is at the root of this.

Any truth to this? Thoughts/opinions?
:rofl1:

I'm sorry, I was just thinking it was hilarious to imagine that IxFP disorganisation and bad follow-through are the central impediments to their potential villainy - "you know, if I could only get my shit together I could be truly evil". :laugh:

I don't personally feel capable of tremendous acts of evil; I'm just not angry and hateful enough to plot out the demise of others, nor do I typically feel any satisfaction in watching people suffer or fail. So basically, if you don't have the drive, and the pay off isn't going to fulfil you, you're not really inclined to go down that road.

OTOH, I can perhaps see why that has been said. I'm pretty good at figuring out people. I can spot the chinks in the armour, or the soft underbelly, or the things that matters most to them in the world. I suppose there is that potential that a IxFP could use those weaknesses to not only hurt, but completely crush another human being. I almost never to go for those sore spots, even in the heat of the moment; even when I'm completely losing my temper and not exactly thinking straight, I know that those parts are below the belt, and will consciously avoid going for them. In my mind those kinds of attacks are so far beyond the line it would sick to go there, even when the other person might be doing everything they can to hurt you in return. It's like the physical fights I used to have with my sister when we were kids: she would often hit me as hard as she could, but I never hit her with my full strength, even when I was infuriated - because I knew just how much harder I could hit.

I can only think of a few occasions where I've crossed that line. Mostly it was when I was a child, and it was pretty tame in the scheme of things. I didn't boil a bunny or anything.
 

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I've been called "devil, tempter, seducer, evil" more times than I can remember. Granted, women were the ones that called me that. I can see the inherent + honed manipulation of the psyche to such an influential degree that it becomes a sort of "black magic" of its own. At least its a black magic to those who are being influenced.
 

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While I've never been actively malicious, I have from a pretty early age carried a sense of containing the full range of human potentialities inside, but also believe it's a universal thing. It's every individual's power and responsibility. In that way, hearing that I'm capable of evil is no newsflash, but so are you.
 

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I'm sorry, I was just thinking it was hilarious to imagine that IxFP disorganisation and bad follow-through are the central impediments to their potential villainy - "you know, if I could only get my shit together I could be truly evil". :laugh:
:laugh:
 

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This thread only validates what I've known all along, which is that, even though ExTJs have a bad rap for being evil in an organized and successful way, IxFPs are just as evil as we are... but quieter about it. :devil:

That's why the ExTJ/IxFP couple pairing is so frequent: complementary forms of evil!
 
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Have you read the Jung profile on Fi?

I got chills.

Never again.
 

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I read somewhere that ISXP’s are surprisingly capable of tremendous acts of evil - more so than any other type. However they tend to be incapable of bringing these realities to fruition. It's an Fi dom thing that is at the root of this.

Any truth to this? Thoughts/opinions?

I once molested a cat, sexually harassed a 13 year boy, gaslighted someone, slapped someone, verbally abused someone and I nearly killed my mother.

;)
 

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IxFPs are more the power behind the throne types I would think. Why do the dirty work when you can get others to do it for you? :D
 

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IXFPs are surprising capable of tremendous acts of evil

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What do you mean by 'surprising' ? :D
 

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behind the fluffy exterior lies a heart of evil.

yeah, that seems about right.
 

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I can spot the chinks in the armour, or the soft underbelly, or the things that matters most to them in the world. I suppose there is that potential that a IxFP could use those weaknesses to not only hurt, but completely crush another human being.

I could see that in these terms. If Fi's gift is to really, deeply, genuinely know the interior of something... then its potential is to be able to know how best to destroy that.
 

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No, I don't see it at all. All humans can have a darkside, but I don't see IXFPs as being capable of 'tremendous acts of evil'.
 

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I read somewhere that ISXP’s are surprisingly capable of tremendous acts of evil - more so than any other type. However they tend to be incapable of bringing these realities to fruition. It's an Fi dom thing that is at the root of this.

Any truth to this? Thoughts/opinions?
I'll be curious to read along the I FP responses, but I'm rather unconvinced.

Have you read the Jung profile on Fi?

I got chills.

Never again.
Really? Is there any info online? I'd just be curious to read it because it sounds off. Also, I didn't think that these personality theories were about morality, but just how people process and think.
 
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Really? Is there any info online? I'd just be curious to read it because it sounds off. Also, I didn't think that these personality theories were about morality, but just how people process and think.

(This is the original source for all theories on cognitive functions, btw)

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Jung/types.htm

He talks a bit about the ways morality can and cannot be derived by the functions, and in what manners they will manifest themselves and such.

To be fair, the Te profile is just as scary, in places - but the Te parts are more like being afraid of your dad. The Fi parts are more like being afraid of what's under your bed.
 

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I read somewhere that ISXP’s are surprisingly capable of tremendous acts of evil - more so than any other type. However they tend to be incapable of bringing these realities to fruition. It's an Fi dom thing that is at the root of this.

Any truth to this? Thoughts/opinions?

How can you be capable of something you are incapable of?
 
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