>People who can understand the world view of another with no emotional connection are psychopaths. If the cheetah were human we’d be considering custodial sente

>People who can understand the world view of another with no emotional connection are psychopaths. If the cheetah were human we’d be considering custodial sentences. groan Can we please stop repeating this myth? Psychopathy is the lack of empathy or remorse paired with impulsiveness. Psychopaths are self destructive as much as they are other-destructive.[0] The ability to feel empathy (and whether people do in practice) probably varies significantly between people and not having significant amounts of affective empathy doesn't generally lead to psychopathy. Moreover, cognitive empathy can absolutely be used for good ends. Affective empathy can lead to pathological cases when it's misdirected or overly sensitive. It's important to remember that when somebody feels affective empathy, they're not magically feeling what the other person is feeling. They're feeling what their brain is telling them about the other persons condition. This can justify all sorts of abuses and horrors in the name of 'somebodies own good'. It's a fairly common story for narcissists to make a point of how much their sense of affective empathy means they're being hurt by the people around them having emotions. [0]: Look at the DSM criteria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorde...