adamkarnacz on Nostr: My understanding has always been that many psychopaths do have empathy. And they use ...

My understanding has always been that many psychopaths do have empathy. And they use this to their advantage to manipulate people, especially because they don’t care about your feelings.

On empathy more generally…..cognitive empathy is the important one. This is what is displayed by many nurses, police officers etc…..where they have a full understanding of what the person needs and delivers it in a very practical way, professionally and without a massive display of emotion. Some people mistake this for being “cold”.

The other form of empathy is not as useful, is less selfless and results in people sending teddy bears to disaster incidents.