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[quote user="Kowalski"] How is that any different from me judging the behavior of someone who hits their kids? How is it an irrational belief that hitting children is a bad thing to do? [/quote] Before I say anything else, I want to address this. You completely misunderstood me unfortunately. I absolutely am not saying that hitting children
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Quite tired, got woken up early by builders again :-/ Apologies if any this is incoherent! [quote user="Kowalski"] Actually I didn't say that at all. I said that from a self-interest standpoint, psychopaths know negative consequences can come from acting immorally and that they make the choice to risk it. You don't need empathy to
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[quote user="Kowalski"] [quote user="Bricks"] Before I respond to your other point, why are you saying that I'm condemning you? Please point (and quote me please) to where I did this. [/quote] Implicit in all of your arguments is that I'm in a position of wrongness (judgement) and should change to one of rightness (non-judgement
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Before I respond to your other point, why are you saying that I'm condemning you? Please point (and quote me please) to where I did this.
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[quote] I'm asking you, why don't they change? If to change would bring them genuine happiness, then surely they act against their own self-interest. If they gain sadistic pleasure from it and don't change because of that, then it is against an addiction problem. [/quote] Ooops, I meant to say: "..it is again an addiction problem"
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[quote user="Kowalski"] [quote user="Bricks"]OK, so what about empathy? If she behaved badly out of a lack of empathy, and that her lack of empathy is a developmental disorder, then how can she be blamed for having a lack of empathy?[/quote] 1* I don't believe people with a genuine absence of empathy like narcissistic or psychopathic
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[quote user="Kowalski"] [quote user="Bricks"]Also, it has been said inumberable times that all destructive behaviour is acted out UNCONSCIOUSLY. As in, there is unresolved trauma that leads to unconscious behaviour. If people are literally acting unconsciously (this is often referred to by Stef as acting through your false self)
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To add, maybe Stef's mum was unconscious of her hiding her violent behaviour. ---- And as well, even if she knew exactly what she was doing and chose to cause harm. Why would she do that? Lack of empathy is one explanation. But another as well could be POWER ADDICTION. What's that you say? Same as any other addiction. There is a compulsion to
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[quote user="Kowalski"] [quote user="Bricks"] [quote user="Stefan Molyneux"] My mother never hit me in public. [/quote] You already admitted that your mother was insane. How can you hold insane people accountable for their actions? Also, aren't all irrational people technically insane? (or at least partly insane, behaving
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[quote user="Kowalski"] [quote user="Bricks"] [quote user="Stefan Molyneux"] My mother never hit me in public. [/quote] You already admitted that your mother was insane. How can you hold insane people accountable for their actions? Also, aren't all irrational people technically insane? (or at least partly insane, behaving