This is a serious question and point of interrogation. I know there are a lot of people with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) who don't commit evil. Probably most of them don't. But they are overrepresented in positions of power and I do think that it is because of their particular brain configuration that they are. I'm not calling for ostracism for people with ASPD, but is it really beyond our norms to call out that kind of behavior with an identifier?
This is a hard problem we have to deal with. Yes people with ASPD can be good and virtuous. But so much of leftism relies on a foundation of considering what other people feel and acting to avoid their harm. This isn't an idle consideration. It is the fundamental source of leftism beyond a descriptive sense of people merely acting in their own self interest.
I don't know. But fuck, sister, I don't think it's wrong to highlight that the people oppressing us do not have an internal mechanism of imagining themselves as the oppressed.
As far as the broader implications of the term, I sort of agree. But it is clearly being applied in a specific context in this case.
I'm speaking as a person who has had what might be described as "psychotic breaks".
What is the appropriate term for people whose brains do not perform the function of empathy?
This is a serious question and point of interrogation. I know there are a lot of people with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) who don't commit evil. Probably most of them don't. But they are overrepresented in positions of power and I do think that it is because of their particular brain configuration that they are. I'm not calling for ostracism for people with ASPD, but is it really beyond our norms to call out that kind of behavior with an identifier?
This is a hard problem we have to deal with. Yes people with ASPD can be good and virtuous. But so much of leftism relies on a foundation of considering what other people feel and acting to avoid their harm. This isn't an idle consideration. It is the fundamental source of leftism beyond a descriptive sense of people merely acting in their own self interest.
I don't know. But fuck, sister, I don't think it's wrong to highlight that the people oppressing us do not have an internal mechanism of imagining themselves as the oppressed.
As far as the broader implications of the term, I sort of agree. But it is clearly being applied in a specific context in this case.
I'm speaking as a person who has had what might be described as "psychotic breaks".