If you play an evil character it’s gotta stick a little.

And if you’re a character-actor who always gets the evil role. If you play 100 evil guys. Then 100X moreso.

You get into the evil role. See the world through evil eyes and evil motivations.

And over time it’s gotta bend your personality towards real evilness. Right?

I suppose you could google evil-character-actors. 20 years later, how many got arrested for something heinous.

What do you think?

EDIT

Put more generally : Can habits gained in one context bleed over into another context?

Yes.

Do they?

Possibly. With increasing probability as the habit becomes stronger. And there’s self-awareness to consider. And how much the habit clashes with the new context.

    • froghorse@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      (Wow, you discovered my kryptonite. Nothing compels me to openness like an accusation of dishonesty.)

      But no, I see no good argument in your reply there. I think that habits from one context do indeed bleed over into another. I think it happens all the time. Yes, it can inform. And it can outright influence too.

      • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
        0·
        1 year ago

        Okay. Maybe I’ve been a bit too direct/blunt. I’m sorry if that makes you feel a certain way but I really can not tell.

        You can look it up. There have been studies done on exact this topic. I’m not an expert though. I remember people discussing similar topics like if playing Counterstrike on a computer makes you want to kill people in real-life. As far as i remember there has been quite some effort trying to prove there is a connection. You have to really read the studies, though, to understand. And to know about correlation, causation and all the scientific stuff. AFAIK it turns out children at a certain age develop an understanding and slowly start to learn to differentiate between fiction and reality.

        Edit: You really see no compelling argument there? So someone exceptionally empathic like a good actor would be the one who likes to harm other people? Even more so than somebody less empathic who wouldn’t care for other people suffering?

        • froghorse@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’m sorry if that makes you feel a certain way but I really can not tell

          Lol

          Forget it.