Empathy, Stupidity, And Anger

[oneday]

Sometimes maybe yes but you are right not always I was raised by a megalomaniac mother and psycopathic (cant spell) father so I should have no hope of feeling empathy. But I feel great empathy for people.

 

[Ronin]

I think all that nature vs nurture in regards to empathy is in great amount unscientific because how you treat yourself & others boils down to choice.

What one 'feels' or not doesn't have all that much to do with it.
It's excuses.

Or: People are yet to show me an abuser who truly 'couldn't help themselves'. Empath or 'path alike. So many abusers are empaths. They don't care, but that doesn't mean they don't understand the suffering of others on some levels.

Whole the classification system for empathy disorders is lacking & stigmatizing & more a weapon against people from specific upbringings and entangled in toxic lifestyles, than be a valuable diagnostic category with truth to it. Criminal justice classifications make more sense for focusing on abuse, specifically.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Some have disorders that mean they cant but others are quite capable of stopping to show some consideration.

I do agree that some just dont care. I suppose I could use my ex for that one. Eventually, after I was gone he cared but still never changed.

I call them the asaholes of the world. I dont know if they completely lack empathy but certianly dont have much but think they do & think they are displaying empathy but arent in reality. They are purely assholes. I see these folks saying "Just get over it" and "Let the past stay in the past" etc.

I think these are the set that get sympathy and empathy confused and there is a stark difference between the two!

Criminal justice classifications make more sense for focusing on abuse, specifically.

I do agree and there is a stark difference in those that lacks empathy and those that act on hurting others. Abusers and preditors, theres no excuse for and should be under the jail!

You can lack empathy but not hurt another and theres many examples of this.