Benevolence is a faculty in the discredited theory of
Interaction with other faculties:
*Negative Benevolence + positive Firmness: authoritarian personality without consideration and humanity.
*Negative Benevolence + positive Destructiveness: propensity for unkindness or cruelty in one form or another.
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