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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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coldtea ◴[] No.43811343[source]
He said that because he couldn't empathize with those defendants...
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1. thoroughburro ◴[] No.43811363{3}[source]
This is the paradox of tolerance and it’s pretty cringe.