You're just confusing empathy with sympathy.
— Isaac
I don't believe I am. If you replace the words "sympathy for the words "empathy" in my paragraph it makes no sense. — Wheatley
I don't believe I am. If you replace the words "sympathy for the words "empathy" in my paragraph it makes no sense. — Wheatley
Most humans have empathy in that we can put ourselves in the shoes of other people and know what harm we can cause them. However a person with empathy can never put himself in the shoes of a psychopath because an empathetic will never know what it's like to be a person without empathy (psychopath). — Wheatley
That's exactly what I'm talking about.Of course, if you mean more like casual everyday situations then sure, it's far easier to put myself in the shoes of someone with empathy than a psychopath, although in neither case I'll never know for sure if I got it right. — zookeeper
You feel bad that a human is being tortured, but do you feel bad for the psychopath personally?I'd feel bad for a psychopath being tortured, for instance, and if someone wouldn't then I'd consider them to be somewhat akin to a psychopath themselves. — zookeeper
Not really.However, we should clarify what we mean by "fundamentally". For example, can an extrovert empathize with an introvert? Can an able person empathize with with someone with disability? Can a heterogeneous empathize with a queer? — Carekess observations
I cannot answer that question.Then do we really have empathy, when we cannot empathize with anyone but those who are exactly like us? — Carekess observations
If you commit a crime against a psychopath s/he will tell you in no uncertain terms what you did was wrong and why it was wrong and how you should be punished. But s/he forgets all this when it is the other way around. — EnPassant
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