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For sake of argument, if everyone around you is a sociopath and you are not and are feeling empathy and compassion, you'll have problems too, but it's not you w
by quadrangle 9y ago
For sake of argument, if everyone around you is a sociopath and you are not and are feeling empathy and compassion, you'll have problems too, but it's not you who's deficient.
Having a problem doesn't mean your condition need be considered pathological.
- mcguire 9y agoBy "everyone around you", I meant the majority of everyone else in the world. The majority is always sane.
- miceeatnicerice 9y agoIf everyone's got the plague does that mean they're all in tip top health? Nope. Festering, bulbous pustules are what they are, and don't magically transform by force of numbers. The same goes for the tendency to mechanically pigeonhole others - it is what it is, a mania for rigidly organizing the (supposedly) rigidly organizing. It sees its own whimsical image in the mirror and explodes with delight.
- quadrangle 9y agoThat's a naked (and unconvincing) appeal to total-relativism.