(January 28, 2016 at 3:08 pm)robvalue Wrote: It is possible Drich has no empathy. I couldn't possibly comment.
Some people don't, and to try and understand how they experience the world is very hard for me. Empathy is my motivating force in almost everything I do, so the idea of not having it is so alien that I can barely get my head around it. It's not someone's fault either, unless they have made a conscious decision to fight against it so hard that they have "deprogrammed" themselves.
I could understand people who lack it trying to seek some other motivations or explanations. Religion, as usual, is there to offer simple answers to difficult questions, not caring about whether they are true or not.
If I had absolutely no empathy, how is it then I know just what to say to get under the skin of the self righteous so easily?
I have empathy, but it is a tool I control and use to meet whatever logical end I am trying to achieve. it is not a free range emotion that can be used to keep me in check with pop culture. (like how you questioning my ability to empathize and holding the term sociopath over my head is supposed to get me to back off.)
If not being control by my 'empathy' (which you think you can obviously manipulate/big picture Goverment can also manipulate) makes me a sociopath in this group then so be it. I'm not some emotionally lead monkey who will be force to change his mode because someone changes the tempo of the music.