Pathological Altruism
(The Swedish bikini team expelling one member while getting ready for a shoot. Cajsa was kicked off the team because the others said she didn't present the right image.) What is Pathological Altruism? The explanation of why White people engage in self-hurting behavior has been called "pathological altruism." However, this is incorrect (more correct in the vein of that type of naming would be autopathological altruism, because yes their behavior does hurt other people--as when White British women who do not get raped advocate for more Arabs invading Britain. However, the illustrative point of the term should have been "autopathological," because the harm a person does to her- or himself stands out more). The phenomenon of pathological altruism attempts to explain auto-harmful behavior in much the same way that one can attempt to explain lightning by saying an invisible sky-man throws the bolts down. It is a manifestation of the mistaken belief th...