The funny thing is that I am a person with extremely low empathy and can lie with a straight face. Fortunately my parents raised me with a fear of God which, whether you like that idea of a 'crutch' or not, has kept me in check. Having discovered Dr. James Fallon a while back I realized that I am not an outlier and my outlook on life s…
The funny thing is that I am a person with extremely low empathy and can lie with a straight face. Fortunately my parents raised me with a fear of God which, whether you like that idea of a 'crutch' or not, has kept me in check. Having discovered Dr. James Fallon a while back I realized that I am not an outlier and my outlook on life seems to be shared by a large swath of the population. Low empathy "pro-social psychopaths" can and do make it quite far in this world it seems. People really don't have to ask the question "How can people do xyz?" where xyz is some crazy, insane, anti-human thing.
I can tell you: it can be done quite easily with no real consideration of others. It takes one to know one sometimes, which could be why I was so suspicious of all of this theatre well over two years ago.
I was not uncomfortable until you mentioned that what I said was an uncomfortable truth bomb :) I take that back, I am still not uncomfortable. I have not read the Talmud myself but have had many awesome Jewish friends. As a matter of fact it was Jews that gave me career opportunities that no one else did.
I doubt Hotez, Fauci, Trudeau (although I think maybe he's just a mentally-stunted insipid thespian wannabe), et al achieved their positions by chance. And I am not convinced that every bad actor is a psychopath in the Hare sense, I think many people can learn the part with sufficient experience--and especially with enough power behind them. I've met former abortionists who were sincere in their belief that they were doing a good deed in their former lives, then changed their minds to think the opposite. Why? And clearly people move the other direction on that subject in greater numbers without a thought. Mass formation? Influence? I can't tell why Hotez and Collins and Gates and Schwab and all the others do what they do, but at least some of it reeks of low empathy, some of it is CYA/politics, and who knows what else. Absolute power corrupts absolutely I'm told.
My eldest sons said I was(am) terrifying. I never saw that in myself, but they did. I'm glad no one ever gave me more power than I could handle. Perhaps the Faucis of the world should have arrived at a similar self assessment early in their careers. Many people would still be alive that are now dead.
The funny thing is that I am a person with extremely low empathy and can lie with a straight face. Fortunately my parents raised me with a fear of God which, whether you like that idea of a 'crutch' or not, has kept me in check. Having discovered Dr. James Fallon a while back I realized that I am not an outlier and my outlook on life seems to be shared by a large swath of the population. Low empathy "pro-social psychopaths" can and do make it quite far in this world it seems. People really don't have to ask the question "How can people do xyz?" where xyz is some crazy, insane, anti-human thing.
I can tell you: it can be done quite easily with no real consideration of others. It takes one to know one sometimes, which could be why I was so suspicious of all of this theatre well over two years ago.
I think your comment is one of the most honest comments I've ever read. Thank you.
I was not uncomfortable until you mentioned that what I said was an uncomfortable truth bomb :) I take that back, I am still not uncomfortable. I have not read the Talmud myself but have had many awesome Jewish friends. As a matter of fact it was Jews that gave me career opportunities that no one else did.
I doubt Hotez, Fauci, Trudeau (although I think maybe he's just a mentally-stunted insipid thespian wannabe), et al achieved their positions by chance. And I am not convinced that every bad actor is a psychopath in the Hare sense, I think many people can learn the part with sufficient experience--and especially with enough power behind them. I've met former abortionists who were sincere in their belief that they were doing a good deed in their former lives, then changed their minds to think the opposite. Why? And clearly people move the other direction on that subject in greater numbers without a thought. Mass formation? Influence? I can't tell why Hotez and Collins and Gates and Schwab and all the others do what they do, but at least some of it reeks of low empathy, some of it is CYA/politics, and who knows what else. Absolute power corrupts absolutely I'm told.
My eldest sons said I was(am) terrifying. I never saw that in myself, but they did. I'm glad no one ever gave me more power than I could handle. Perhaps the Faucis of the world should have arrived at a similar self assessment early in their careers. Many people would still be alive that are now dead.