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47282847 ◴[] No.43810954[source]
It’s interesting to muse about the larger picture here. What is it that makes autism so dangerous? To me it looks like part of an almost spiritual war against empathy/compassion by traumatized individuals trying to fight their own Jungian Shadow.
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timoth3y ◴[] No.43811131[source]
“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

      ― G. M. Gilbert, American psychologist who worked on the Nuremberg trials
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ChrisMarshallNY ◴[] No.43811267[source]
Didn't someone recently mention that "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy"?

Sounds familiar...

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1. notimetorelax ◴[] No.43811330[source]
I didn’t know who that was, so googled. Apparently, Musk said that.
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2. hollandheese ◴[] No.43817438[source]
Even autistic people can be jerks. Elon Musk doesn't have empathy because he's an asshole not because he's autistic.

No one I've heard is saying Musk is an asshole because he's autistic. It's Musk himself that's making that claim by attempting to use it as a cover for his asshole moves.

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3. satanfirst ◴[] No.43825706{3}[source]
It's only like my opinion, but I think a man who describes his father as a "terrible human being" has enough awareness for self awareness unless the claimed disorder is something self obsessed like narcissism.