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Unless you are trained by high-performing sociopaths (e.g. by having them in your own family) and then seeing half-baked "mastery" of those techniques in almost
by bitL 9y ago
Unless you are trained by high-performing sociopaths (e.g. by having them in your own family) and then seeing half-baked "mastery" of those techniques in almost everyone you meet, as they are subconsciously aping those "masters" that became successful. Once you start seeing this, it can't be unseen; good luck not feeling disgusted all day long.
- dTal 9y agoWhich techniques?
- beobab 9y agobitL suggested that you are better off not knowing. Are you sure you want to go down the avenue bitL explicitly suggests will disgust you all day long?
- doc_gunthrop 9y ago[Gaslighting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting) is perhaps one such example.
- fapjacks 9y agoThere is one thing that people are binary about: Their feelings for sociopaths. You can immediately tell who has had to spend time around an honest-to-goodness sociopath and who hasn't. I always say that sociopaths are insects in human skin. Once you've had a brush with one of these "people", it forever alters your perception of the world and the people that inhabit it.
- CuriouslyC 9y agoI can tell you from personal experience that having faulty empathy wiring really sucks, and people who suffer from this problem are deserving of sympathy, even if it's at arms-length. It shouldn't be a surprise that going through life feeling cold and isolated is going to result in someone who does shitty things.