Reply #28: I am, for obvious personal reasons, focusing on your part about the lack of empathy. [View All]

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Do you remember the article fairly recently about how affluent people cannnot relate to emotions in others, whereas poor people can? I thought that highly instructive.

"Psychopaths/sociopaths have no empathy .They are for lack of a better term seem like addicts addicted to brain chemical rewards.it does not matter if it is status seeking or burning a dog or beating up a child,or getting rich & snubbing the poor to death,getting praised or whatever else as long as it produces pleasure sensations they will do it over and over like a drunk domestic abuser every friday and not care who or what damage their pleasures and power tripping abuses cause to anyone else.

This so parallels what I have been saying to a local clergy who is having trouble understanding how it feels to be on the bottom of society's ladder, and being treated like scum by those who profess to be "helping" and "compassionate". He is slowly getting it, but I am going to stick your words in his face. :evilgrin: Thanks, Panth... as always, you are so spot on that you are rocking some very highly touted boats!

I am grasping your definitions, and the differentiations. However, I am still working on the gap the affluent people cause by assuming "mental illness" where there is anguish, and NOT seeing any problem with their own ways they can hurt those they see as beneath themselves, and not give one flying fig. I have been using "mental illness" because it equates to what they put onto others without any understanding whatsoever, but I am now wanting to sharpen this distinction.

Your previous posts on bullying certainly come very close to describing this phenomenon of "helper" and "helpee", but I would like to hear more from you on this as you are inspired.

You contribute so much to DU! I really sux to be so far ahead of the curve, and sometimes I don't know how you manage to keep steady in the face of it... you have my admiration!!

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