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Re:Are grownups just giant kids? by taeric on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @01:04PM (#42309120)
Have you seen most adults? I thought it was generally held that empathy is a learned facility. Not just the ability to feel empathy, but who and what you feel empathy towards.
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Re:Are grownups just giant kids? by HeuristicsCG on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @01:03AM (#42314841)
no, it's hardware. this is why sociopaths exist, they lack it
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Re:Are grownups just giant kids? by taeric on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @09:21AM (#42317648)
I thought that was psychopath?

Regardless on terms, the thought for them was that they were unable to learn empathy. That does not mean that others get it automatically. You only need to look at how we treat animals to see examples of learning empathy.

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