Quote: (11-02-2017 02:59 PM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:
There have always been and will be people that are just irreversibly fucked up from birth. Something related to empathy is simply broken in them for no apparent reason.
The difference is that in the past we used to just hang them immediately and went on with our lives, whereas now this woman will get just a slap on the wrist and later even a nice devoted beta to marry her and perhaps breed more fucked up descendants with her.
I think the `lack of empathy thing` is a misunderstood concept.
Most killers, at least those who kill to get some sort of feeling of pleasure, will achieve just that by putting themselves in the place of the victim.
If you strangle someone to death, and you feel satisfaction during the act, that is only possible if you have empathy.
In other words you can put yourself in the victims place!
I really think empathy is more of a measure of intelligence and
a persons ability to think in the abstract.
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