Every time I see someone write something like "I never understood the problem of poverty until I *insert sob story about living poor for a while*," I can't help but think it's so kind of the narcissists to identify themselves for the rest of us. :)
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Nothing screams "I have neither empathy, compassion nor an understanding of reasoning from principles," like needing to live through some terrible thing to understand it's actually terrible.
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"I thought war was fine but now they want to ship off my son and I've decided to become a pacifist."
Eat shit, asshole.
Shame about your son, though.
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Lots of things can't be emphathized with. We often overestimate the reach of affective empathy. That's why I mentioned reasoning from principles in the next tweet.
E.g.: It's plausible *some* people exaggerating chronic pain, but almost every sufferer? Probably not.
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In comparing ourselves with others ("thought I knew pain") we're susceptible to motivated reasoning and fundamental attribution error, for all sorts of ego-serving reasons.
Happens to everyone, but for certain issues you'd have to be quite narcissistic not to understand.
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