• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    You are making assumptions about my character simply because I have no empathy for a single person because of their choices that led them to die

    You bet your ass I’m judging your character based on this.

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      9 months ago

      Have you ever looked at the Darwin awards and laughed? Damn you are just as bad as me!

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        9 months ago

        Of course I have. I bet a lot of those people would laugh at their own deaths too, if they could see them afterward.

        But that has nothing to do with empathy.

        Being able to turn your empathy off at will, seeing empathy as a thing you can control, that tells me about your character.

        You might not like that this reveals information about you, but it does.

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          9 months ago

          Interesting. Having the ability to control empathy and how it’s handed out is a very strong defense mechanism. Surprised you haven’t done it yourself in order to protect yourself from narcissistic people you have met through life. Or maybe you are over analyzing my comment as it’s not like I’m able to turn empathy on and off at will. But factors will affect it. As with all things. Blatantly being empathetic to everything is a recipe for suffering.