The Dark Side of Blogging: Being Devoid of Empathy
July 31st 2008 03:10
The Dark Side of Blogging: Being Devoid of Empathy
It may seem strange that that people can exist without the slightest amount of empathy in their souls. Yet such people do exist. I won’t bore you with details of the results of such thinking because such thinking is beyond reasoning with. To be absolutely ruthless a person need only be devoid of empathy not rational thinking.
People often talk about their own nobility as if it is a prize that hangs upon a wall and yet in a moment of heated anger they become no better than the beasts; worse in many ways because no beast can be as ruthless or as rationally determined to harm others as man can. We can easily justify crushing an enemy for the sake of a small amount of adulation, from a small pathetic crowd of cheerers. For the sake of a tiny victory, from of a tiny group, for a tiny amount of time a victory has become more important than anything on the planet. To be clever is one thing but to clever and ruthless is the most terrible thing. Clever people can be so logical and so determined that they can be without the slightest sympathy for another human.
Imperfect humans can demand a level of perfection that they would never be able to adhere to. They demand it because they love to judge others in a fraudulent test that is designed to make the victim fail so miserably. And when they fail, as is the purpose of the test, the next action is to punish the person mercilessly: to drive them off, to scorn them, to point and stare, to let fly with further accusations and to condemn. The pleasure that some people feel from sadism; the heights that they reach from degrading others as they degrade themselves.
I have very little time for the ruthless or those demanders of perfection who cannot match up to their own testing regime. This is not the way to use education and knowledge. Knowledge is not a weapon designed for the exclusive purpose of domination of others. Such ideas belong to the ruthless that make the most savage beasts seem tame in comparison.
There is a problem that occurs when people lose all empathy toward others because in that process they lose all site of what is most important in life. The people around them; their relationships; who they enjoy to be with and what they genuinely enjoy doing. The normal humanity that many of us take for granted can leave a human and what remain is an empty desire to do nothing else but win. There is no good or evil, just power and control. Like a giant game of chess, pieces are designed to be used or sacrificed to protect the king.
A person without empathy is like a cold empty shell that cannot feel what the normal emotions we feel, nor understand the pain that we feel or the distress that we see. It is a detached person that needs to pretend that they have these emotions in order to survive in the world. They know that they are different than others but need to pretend that they are like the rest of the world. They can pretend to have emotions or feelings for other whilst all the time seeing nothing but a ploy or a ruse to fool suckers and the weak. Yet if they fail they will feign these emotions only to escape long enough to start another attack. There is no such thing as mercy in without empathy and who on this planet can claim to be greater than the ones that they denigrate?
Just what the Doctor Ordered.
It may seem strange that that people can exist without the slightest amount of empathy in their souls. Yet such people do exist. I won’t bore you with details of the results of such thinking because such thinking is beyond reasoning with. To be absolutely ruthless a person need only be devoid of empathy not rational thinking.
People often talk about their own nobility as if it is a prize that hangs upon a wall and yet in a moment of heated anger they become no better than the beasts; worse in many ways because no beast can be as ruthless or as rationally determined to harm others as man can. We can easily justify crushing an enemy for the sake of a small amount of adulation, from a small pathetic crowd of cheerers. For the sake of a tiny victory, from of a tiny group, for a tiny amount of time a victory has become more important than anything on the planet. To be clever is one thing but to clever and ruthless is the most terrible thing. Clever people can be so logical and so determined that they can be without the slightest sympathy for another human.
Imperfect humans can demand a level of perfection that they would never be able to adhere to. They demand it because they love to judge others in a fraudulent test that is designed to make the victim fail so miserably. And when they fail, as is the purpose of the test, the next action is to punish the person mercilessly: to drive them off, to scorn them, to point and stare, to let fly with further accusations and to condemn. The pleasure that some people feel from sadism; the heights that they reach from degrading others as they degrade themselves.
I have very little time for the ruthless or those demanders of perfection who cannot match up to their own testing regime. This is not the way to use education and knowledge. Knowledge is not a weapon designed for the exclusive purpose of domination of others. Such ideas belong to the ruthless that make the most savage beasts seem tame in comparison.
There is a problem that occurs when people lose all empathy toward others because in that process they lose all site of what is most important in life. The people around them; their relationships; who they enjoy to be with and what they genuinely enjoy doing. The normal humanity that many of us take for granted can leave a human and what remain is an empty desire to do nothing else but win. There is no good or evil, just power and control. Like a giant game of chess, pieces are designed to be used or sacrificed to protect the king.
A person without empathy is like a cold empty shell that cannot feel what the normal emotions we feel, nor understand the pain that we feel or the distress that we see. It is a detached person that needs to pretend that they have these emotions in order to survive in the world. They know that they are different than others but need to pretend that they are like the rest of the world. They can pretend to have emotions or feelings for other whilst all the time seeing nothing but a ploy or a ruse to fool suckers and the weak. Yet if they fail they will feign these emotions only to escape long enough to start another attack. There is no such thing as mercy in without empathy and who on this planet can claim to be greater than the ones that they denigrate?
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Comment by S.L.
The Political Brief
Comment by Damo
For the Sake of Argument
My Apologetics
Thanks for your comments.
Criminals have their own issues.
I have heard said that to achieve true evil a person must be without empathy.
Comment by Anne Tootill
The Female View
I wonder if some bloggers reading this will see themselves here, I think not.
Comment by Damo
For the Sake of Argument
My Apologetics
Thanks for your comments.
All I done is express an opinion with out any supporting evidence.
People will take from it what they want.
Comment by tlcorbin
Coffee Quip
A Global Citizen
Paranormal Paranormal
Is Why
Alaska Chronicle
Comment by Damo
For the Sake of Argument
My Apologetics
We all have weakness and triggers that set us off.
That just makes us imperfect humans.
I can handle mistakes,
because I am very uncomfortable around gods.
Comment by Jim Stillman
Political Certainty
Comment by Anne Tootill
The Female View
Comment by Damo
For the Sake of Argument
My Apologetics
Thanks for your comments.
I do try to keep my posts on an even keel with past grievances left where they belong, in the past.
That way people can write about the subject rather than a person.
Comment by D. Armenta
The Florida Keys and Everglades
The Black Sheep Chronicles
What constitutes bad manners?
The male mystique
Debate Fan
L.A.M.P.
(For those who don't know that I am a smartass or are humorously challenged, the above is a sarcastic joke)
Comment by Natalie 2
My Life My Muse
Beta Girl Blog
Name calling and nastiness tends to take away from the spirit of a person's argument anyway.
Comment by tlcorbin
Coffee Quip
A Global Citizen
Paranormal Paranormal
Is Why
Alaska Chronicle
Comment by Damo
For the Sake of Argument
My Apologetics
Welcome to my puniverse
Real people are so hard to find these days.
Under all those layers of BS how do they manage keep a sure footing on the high moral ground of BS.
(Sarcasm for those do not know is the lowest form of wit.)
Natalie 2
People are human and imperfect. My self included. So it is not my role to pass judgement on you. Dummy spits are very common and sometimes a 'rite of passage' or just someone trying be heard.
Usually I find that for every lynch mob whether it be, internet, office, school or workshop there are just a hand full of people who love to stir the pot so that they can enjoy watching the destructive drama unfold. You may want to watch those ones closer and even question my motives in telling you this.
Raven
Thanks for your comments.
Since I spend over 10 years in customer facing roles there is perhaps no insult that you could come up with that I have not already been called (in technicolor language). You get detached from the tantrums after a while.
Comment by Carolyn Cordon
Light Within
How do You Express Your Creativity?
Food Leaf
I question whether prisons contain most of these types of people. I'd be looking in the boardrooms and the corridors of political power for the most part.
Comment by Damo
For the Sake of Argument
My Apologetics
Thanks for your comments.
I would say that some rare criminals in prison do lack empathy. In the US there was a prison gang called the Brother Hood who dominated every other gang. They took the best educated, smartest, fittest and most ruthless white only inmates and trained them to be more ruthless. A cult like devotion to the cause of prison drugs and gambling rackets. Worth looking up if you have a chance.
However I agree there are plenty of boardroom tyrants and heartless politicians. Some are very clever at staying out of prison.
Comment by Carolyn Cordon
Light Within
How do You Express Your Creativity?
Food Leaf
The other two seem addicted to TV with bad American dudes. I turn off. I'd rather read a book or create something wonderful - try anyway! I don't have to watch it, just cos it's on!
Comment by Damo
For the Sake of Argument
My Apologetics
It was definitely a blokey type of show to watch.
But it was an interesting case study.
Comment by D. Armenta
The Florida Keys and Everglades
The Black Sheep Chronicles
What constitutes bad manners?
The male mystique
Debate Fan
L.A.M.P.
Scatological jokes are.
Jeez, you guys are making me feel very picked-on today.
(BTW, that was NOT sarcastic humor. I do feel picked-on.)
Comment by Damo
For the Sake of Argument
My Apologetics
The last person I would ever pick on is you.
You are one of the few people around here with a some common sense.
Comment by D. Armenta
The Florida Keys and Everglades
The Black Sheep Chronicles
What constitutes bad manners?
The male mystique
Debate Fan
L.A.M.P.
I just wish I had some clue as to what is going on...
Sarcasm is my forte!
Comment by Damo
For the Sake of Argument
My Apologetics
One word Entrysm.
Comment by Miswanderlust
Killer Beats
Ramble On
Hipnotherapy
I guess we need to go ahead and just take off the crowns of superiority! Great post!
Mis
Comment by Damo
For the Sake of Argument
My Apologetics
Thanks for your comments.
I think my crown gets knocked off daily.
If ever I think I am some great thinker in the world I just spend time listening to my kids. They have a way of highlighting imperfections in such an amplified manner.