I've met 3 year-old boys and girls who display these traits. Why are you focused on what women find attractive? Under that line of reasoning, if men didn't find these traits attractive, (a) women wouldn't display these traits, and/or (b) these traits wouldn't be common in male-dominated C-levels of organizations around the world. On an evolutionary timescale, I hardly think it's fair to characterize this as a result of women's sexual preferences, as pregnancy/marriage following rape (a consequence of entitlement, callousness, sadism, shortcutting, etc) was bracingly common until quite recently (not that it isn't still happening) and abortion of such offspring is still nowhere near 100%.
As a thought experiment, I propose a dark corollary to Popper's paradox: should we eradicate people who display these traits? Well, that's a catch-22; the only people liable to agree with that are the very ones bound for the chopping block.
I've met 3 year-old boys and girls who display these traits. Why are you focused on what women find attractive?
I'm not "focused" on what women find attractive; if you have a link to a study that backs up your anecdote that attraction to dark triad attributes is evenly distributed between the sexes, please post it.
As a thought experiment, I propose a dark corollary to Popper's paradox: should we eradicate people who display these traits? Well, that's a catch-22; the only people liable to agree with that are the very ones bound for the chopping block.