Is Empathy Subjective?

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12 Oct 2012, 11:58 pm

These were such amazing responses that I'm still working them out in my academic ideas journal. Thank you all for your thoughtful replies!

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13 Oct 2012, 12:27 am

VAGraduateStudent wrote:

These were such amazing responses that I'm still working them out in my academic ideas journal. Thank you all for your thoughtful replies!

You're welcome.

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14 Oct 2012, 10:32 am

donnie_darko wrote:

I used to have deep empathy until I realized most human beings are pretty unloving and judgmental, and sadly I don't really feel that strongly for people anymore. Not even my own family, like I used to. :cry:

If you can't care, at least be polite.

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15 Oct 2012, 10:42 am

donnie_darko wrote:

I realized most human beings are pretty unloving and judgmental

It ain't necessarily so :wink:

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17 Oct 2012, 2:11 pm

Well, I think there's a logical basis to empathy, as well as an intuitive one. Were all part of one continuity and mutually interconnected by the objective realm, and I think you can feel this continuity on the subjective level.

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17 Oct 2012, 2:38 pm

What kind of question is this, of course empathy is subjective, its pretty obvious don't you think?

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17 Oct 2012, 7:32 pm

I think those on the Autism spectrum have the exact ability to empathize as Neurotypicals,
which is to say that
we, like they, are most-easily able to empathize with those like ourselves.

The difference is that when an NT, as a member of a statistical majority, has no Theory of Mind toward an Autistic person,
he/she is not pathologized for it.
:roll:

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"Such is the Frailty
of the human Heart, that very few Men, who have no Property, have any Judgment of their own.
They talk and vote as they are directed by Some Man of Property, who has attached their Minds
to his Interest."

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