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DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I’m beginning to think that the number of people that just can not feel empathy is way higher than most people thought.

I always assumed that a complete lack of empathy was associated with an actual psychiatric disorder. But that’s the crux of what’s happening on the world today, isn’t it? A huge percentage of the populace are literally just completely incapable of feeling empathy for their fellow humans. And they’re mad that they’ve been told that they have to, ya know, care about other people.

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Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I think it’s more about material conditions, if you have a rewards system that encourages lack of empathy you’ll be filtering out people with it.

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bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Who’s telling people to care now, though? It seems like the opposite to me. I’m hearing from people I know that therapists are telling them and encouraging them to ghost people that are stressing them out.

I remember years ago in a psychology class, the psychology professor talking about how there had been research done saying that most people that had a positive view of themselves tended to avoid negative people.

That really bothered me, because I thought how would avoiding all negative people do anything but make the world a worse place? It seemed like to me if you were doing well and had a positive view of things that you would be strong enough to lend your strength to other people to help them.

When my spouse died and I went to the support group.The first thing the counselor said was to try not to take it personally when friends and family turned away from us because we were widows and widowers, because evidently, this is a common thing that is happening today, that when a spouse dies, family and friends are turning away from the surviving spouse just because they don’t want to deal with the ideas of death and the sadness of it. So widows now are getting very little support even from their own families and friends.

I think the lack of empathy problem stems from both psychiatric disorder and systematic encouragement. We are being ruled by psychopaths, and they are using the system to train people to think that it’s okay to not have empathy.

I don’t think we’re going to get through this world without removing psychopaths from positions of power high and low. We have to stop letting psychopaths control anything. They cannot be president.They cannot run for any political office. And we shouldn’t even let them work at the dmv or have any kind of power over anyone in any capacity, because it always goes badly when you let someone that has no empathy control other people’s lives.

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