IF one’s missing empathy, no mirror-neuron-function, so others are just meat-marionettes to one…
why care whether they’re butchered or not?
They aren’t real if one hasn’t got mirror-neuron-function: they aren’t SOMEONES, they are meat-marionettes, then.
I think it’s the most-fundamental “valid/nonvalid” & “my-kind/others” polarization possible in human-category life…
I’ve read that there are true-psychopaths who simply abstain from harming those around them, even if they can’t understand why anybody would deem these others to be valuable, & I have to admire their character.
That’d take work, for no-reward.
it’s like the people who can’t experience pain: they usually get dead, early, as a consequence of it.
People without any empathy, whatsoever, how could they avoid massively-butchering others’ worth, if it isn’t even felt by their sentience, to be real?
Thank you for putting it in this discussion that psychopaths aren’t inherently-evil: they’re deafblind to empathy, totally, but that character is still significant.
I recommend the Netflix show “The End of the F…ing World” which is largely about this.
What I think it comes down to is that you can develop an understanding of things that are not intuitive to you, or only intuitive sometimes in narrow circumstances, and the value of human solidarity and cooperation is true on a deep enough level that there are lots of different ways to discover it. As someone who doesn’t always have the emotional reactions that people expect or would be reassured by, it bugs me when people push the idea that having the wrong feelings is what makes someone a monster, both because there’s way more to it than that and because projected expectations have a powerful influence. People who are angry and numb and looking for a sense of identity shouldn’t be villified for the things about themselves they don’t get to choose.
That is true, but where’s the motivation?
IF one’s missing empathy, no mirror-neuron-function, so others are just meat-marionettes to one…
why care whether they’re butchered or not?
They aren’t real if one hasn’t got mirror-neuron-function: they aren’t SOMEONES, they are meat-marionettes, then.
I think it’s the most-fundamental “valid/nonvalid” & “my-kind/others” polarization possible in human-category life…
I’ve read that there are true-psychopaths who simply abstain from harming those around them, even if they can’t understand why anybody would deem these others to be valuable, & I have to admire their character.
That’d take work, for no-reward.
it’s like the people who can’t experience pain: they usually get dead, early, as a consequence of it.
People without any empathy, whatsoever, how could they avoid massively-butchering others’ worth, if it isn’t even felt by their sentience, to be real?
Thank you for putting it in this discussion that psychopaths aren’t inherently-evil: they’re deafblind to empathy, totally, but that character is still significant.
That is what I’d read, & needed reminding of it.
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I recommend the Netflix show “The End of the F…ing World” which is largely about this.
What I think it comes down to is that you can develop an understanding of things that are not intuitive to you, or only intuitive sometimes in narrow circumstances, and the value of human solidarity and cooperation is true on a deep enough level that there are lots of different ways to discover it. As someone who doesn’t always have the emotional reactions that people expect or would be reassured by, it bugs me when people push the idea that having the wrong feelings is what makes someone a monster, both because there’s way more to it than that and because projected expectations have a powerful influence. People who are angry and numb and looking for a sense of identity shouldn’t be villified for the things about themselves they don’t get to choose.