Hope for America!!

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Ironically the one type of person I can't empathise with is someone with no empathy. I simply can't imagine it.

But I do feel sympathy, nonetheless. I totally understand all the shocked reactions to this sociopathic drivel, I feel them myself. But I also see that on a fundamental level, he's not as fit to stand trial for the things he says and does as someone who does have empathy. I'm not excusing any of this, just saying that we're dealing with a totally different type of person.

I feel a bit sorry for him, actually. Both this thread and the transsexual one have both backfired about as badly as is humanly possible and highlighted the actual issues lie with him, and people like him, in both cases.

I'm not saying that anyone should stop being shocked, and stating this very clearly, so as to guide other readers away from this kind of thing. But in Drich's case, I realise that we are basically appealing to empathy, we're trying to show him how wrong it is, when he doesn't have any equipment to know what is wrong. So it's the wrong tool for the job. What is the right tool? Fucked if I know.