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RE: Empathy and Feeling Too Much
Psychopaths, as we conventionally understand the term, seem to have a lack of empathy as well.
....but 'they' are so expert at understanding what empathy is, without feeling it, it is almost impossible to differentiate between real empathy and 'psychopath empathy'.
And this is a real problem, especially in today's social media world.
Empathy is a valuable emotion, but called upon too much and too often, (social media), it loses the inherent value it holds..
Excellent post, sir!
Thanks ;) Yes, those psychos can fake it a lot and make people believe they are caring for them :/ Then comes the manipulation...
It is a much bigger problem than society has acknowledged - or understood over the last 300 years (industrial revolution), in my opinion.
I isn't just the pure psychopath the manipulates feelings by understanding empathy, but not feeling it.
(i.e sociopaths and 'malignant narcissists')
We are talking just under 4% of the worlds population!
When communities were intimate, as in that everyone knew everyone, these pathological personality types were countered (and even nullified).
With larger societies - and anonymity, most importantly - it then became the '4%'s' playground....
It's something I have been looking at for a few years....and I still don't see a solution without psychological profiling of all people up until until adulthood - and a common database of the profiling for everyone to access...
....Of course, that runs 'just a a little bit' contrary to my libertarian principles, on every level....
Yes, when interaction and cooperation is so impersonal and disconnected it creates room for manipulative people to get by, hoping from one person to the next, one group to the next, and exploiting them.