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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I knew one girl with Narcissistic Personality Disorder who realized she didn’t have empathy (her words) and specifically stated that she thought developing it would be detrimental. She thought lacking empathy gave her an advantage, straight up. This is actually common among pathological people like that.

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  • Tedesche@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Then she too wasn’t using the word correctly. She may have meant the affective portion of it, which she probably didn’t have.

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• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  IMO he and others like him are attacking the word empathy because they think how it is being taught will make boys act weak, along woth all they believe that leads to.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    they attack empathy because it inevitably leads to people supporting each other and fighting against fascists.

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  • Tedesche@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There’s nothing in the context of this quote or Elon Musk’s that suggests they’re talking about empathy being taught in schools and it making boys weak. In both cases it’s more a response to Democrats using the word a lot in their political speech to try to bring coalitions of people together.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Sociopathy?

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  • kieron115@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That term isn’t really used anymore due to the stigma attached to it. Anti-social personality disorder is the term. It’s also clinically different from NPD.

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