Right you are, Heather! It's unhealthy to battle trolls. And there's no need to. Their own words confirm and reveal the problematic influence JS has on his students, and the attacks give people (like me) a renewed curiosity in this topic.
I get what you're saying, but I'd like to add that psychopaths are capable of empathy. It's just that they're only empathic when it suits their needs. They can even appear very loving. But the next moment they can discard you or abuse you. This is important for people to understand, because many people who only know a psychopath's empathic side believe that such a person can never do horrible things.
This is from a study of empathy in psychopaths using fMRI scans:
[www.psychologytoday.com]
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However I don't know him or his family now, nor am I involved in his current racket. I can only repeat what I've been saying all along: Swartz is a criminal psychopath and is unable to have empathy for anyone.
I get what you're saying, but I'd like to add that psychopaths are capable of empathy. It's just that they're only empathic when it suits their needs. They can even appear very loving. But the next moment they can discard you or abuse you. This is important for people to understand, because many people who only know a psychopath's empathic side believe that such a person can never do horrible things.
This is from a study of empathy in psychopaths using fMRI scans:
[www.psychologytoday.com]
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So psychopathic individuals do not simply lack empathy. Instead, it seems as though for most of us, empathy is the default mode. If we see a victim, we share her pain. For the psychopathic criminals of our study, empathy seemed to be a voluntary activity. If they want to, they can empathize, and that explains how they can be so charming, and maybe so manipulative. Once they have seduced you into doing what serves their purpose, the effortful empathy would though probably disappear again.