Why Some People Have No Empathy.
If you have normal human empathy, watching what is happening in the United States right now is exhausting in a way that is difficult to explain to people who do not feel it.
You are not crazy. You are not weak. And you are not alone.
But I wanted to understand exactly what is happening here. Why some people seem to feel nothing while others are overwhelmed. So I went looking for the research. And what I found was more disturbing and more clarifying than I expected.
Empathy is the brake pedal on cruelty. Most people do not want to see other human beings suffer. That instinct is not naive. It…
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