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Also, empathy, to me, involves recognizing that there is an actual person involved with the opposing viewpoint -- a thinking, loving, feeling person.
| Until recently I would have agreed 100% with you....now its only 96%...why?
Apparently not everyone on the planet is a loving feeling person...there are a few who are devoid of all conscience. Psychopaths. |
Even people without a conscience may be loving feeling people. They just might have a drastically different viewpoint on love.
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the only real feelings they seem to have - the thing that drives them and causes them to act out different dramas for effect - is a sort of "predatorial hunger" for what they want. That is to say, they "feel" need/want as love, and not having their needs/wants met is described as "not being loved" by them.
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Imagine loving something so much that it blocks out every other feeling for every other thing. (That may be how much a Psychopath loves his or her needs and wants.) Could that be true love? And do you have to go crazy (with empathy) to know it?