It sounds like Wally is admitting to being a sociopath. I'm not saying that to be mean, wally, but actually to just point this out. If he doesn't have (much) empathy, he may be right, it may not be a choice he's making. Sociopaths, (not psychopaths), aren't entirely rare, and one of the key things is that they lack empathy. Sounds like he never had it, and is just rationalizing WHY it's better not to happen...another common trait of sociopaths.
He probably can't help the way he thinks and feels any more than we can. I'm extremely empathetic myself, but I don't chose it, I am just built that way. As long as he's not out hurting people, he's being honest with himself and with us. I'll be honest, I'd never (knowingly) be friends with someone like that because they will use people for their own ends without regard for them as a friend. But he's right....he didn't chose to lack empathy anymore than we chose to have it.
Idon't even know my point here, I clearly agreeing that empathy is a generally usefull social tool or else it wouldn't be a common trait. I feel bad for people without it, but I suppose they disdain people like me, and see us a perfect victims. I guess I'm just saying, he is what he is...accept it, and don't friend him on FB? Sorry Wally. This is a weird way of sticking up for you, I don't imagine you appreciate it either, lol, or that I'll win friends on the other side with this argument, but I do see it as truth, so I just felt the need to share I guess.
See...I married someone like you wally (I didn't know it at the time), a bit anyway, so I do understand, just a bit.
He probably can't help the way he thinks and feels any more than we can. I'm extremely empathetic myself, but I don't chose it, I am just built that way. As long as he's not out hurting people, he's being honest with himself and with us. I'll be honest, I'd never (knowingly) be friends with someone like that because they will use people for their own ends without regard for them as a friend. But he's right....he didn't chose to lack empathy anymore than we chose to have it.
Idon't even know my point here, I clearly agreeing that empathy is a generally usefull social tool or else it wouldn't be a common trait. I feel bad for people without it, but I suppose they disdain people like me, and see us a perfect victims. I guess I'm just saying, he is what he is...accept it, and don't friend him on FB? Sorry Wally. This is a weird way of sticking up for you, I don't imagine you appreciate it either, lol, or that I'll win friends on the other side with this argument, but I do see it as truth, so I just felt the need to share I guess.
See...I married someone like you wally (I didn't know it at the time), a bit anyway, so I do understand, just a bit.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
