Unemotionality Inherently Selfish?

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yeah, people don't like the idea that it is impossible to not be selfish, because it is such a omnipresent lesson in life that selfishness is like some kind of absolute evil that you must never (or almost never) indulge in instead of being an aspect of humanity. It amuses me when people seem to acknowledge that somewhere somehow there is this infinitely inhuman evil which may be a concept or it might physically exist, and that it taints humanity. Everything in life is human defined. There are no acts of man which are not part of the capability of humanity. People sometimes equate hitler with absolute evil. No, hitler was just as evil as some racist as*hole who you may know or have met who wants to kill em all and hates their guts, hitler was just in a position of power.

Think about it, doesn't it feel good to be a martyr? Doesn't it feel good to be "not selfish?" What if it didn't? What if you didn't care at all for the people you had an opportunity to be not-selfish for? Those of you who are "not selfish" take pride that you arent. You like being unselfish. You get pleasure from being unselfish. You don't get money for it, but to people, in most situations their pride is worth their lives.

Totally agree with you Nomaken.

Most people don't like to think about this because they live on the level of social convention, not objectivity.

True objectivity is very scary to many people.

Psychology isn't really much of a science, and neither is sociology. They are areas of study to be sure, but societies are more like an ever-changing art that you may partake a view and perhaps an understanding of. But it isnt a science like chemistry is a science. And psychology is just guess work. Although we've been doing a lot of guessing and keep moving towards a more complete model of guess-dom that seems to just be right.

I prefer Biopsychology-- it's as close to a hard science as Psychology gets. And one day, it will be considered a hard science. But for now, we don't know enough. So, alas, it's just guesswork.

But most of the abstract Freudian crapola nauseates me to no end. I think he's great to learn about as per history and highly fascinating. But for a professional who still refers back to such psychoanalytic times as applicable to today sounds like a scientologist to me.

And as for the changes in the brain: there is an average of change amongst people. A range of normal. Psychopathic brain abnormalities, to my knowledge, do not fall into that range. There is a general status quo amongst stucture with minute variation between person to person. But larger change is abnormal. Which is why it's noted as such.

And for "environment", when I refer to it (I should have been more specific), I mean like family influence and emotional influence. Not things like the environment on fetal development and such-- even though that is "environment," too. Kinda like the physical environment and the psychological environment. I don't believe psychopaths-- not Antisocial PDs but true Psychopaths-- are created by their psychological environment, like parental rearing. I think it's more heavily genetic and the physical environment.

Well i think a lot of us lack empathy by choice. But i think it is likely that we are insensative to certain desires that would cause us to learn stronger empathy.

It can be a very difficult concept to grasp, that of people lacking emotions.

Same way NTs often fail to grasp how Aspies are different.

Doesn't mean that they aren't really different, just that they are harder to understand.

As I recall, psychopaths are suprisingly predictable once you know what they are. They always act in the interests of survival. Also, they are suppose to be very 2D characters.

Eek! A lot of that sounds like me and two other family members.

Sarcastic, just remember there is a high comorbidity rate between Psychopathy and ADHD. But many of those symptoms are applicable to ADHD, too, and they probably get "thrown into" a psychopathy description. You're just ADHD. Not to worry.