i think im fairly high empathy (mixed bag imo) and im not sure this is true of me but im definitely willing to entertain the possibility
suspicion is that people who talk about Being X are just often like this independent of the value taken by X
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Replying to @eigenrobot
this is just the Poseur Dilemma, which i laid out and solved at age 14 as i plotted my tasteful entrance into the subcultures i found Cool : if you need to say it, you are faking it
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a Virtuous Person ("virtue" being whatever <good thing> one likes, even "emo" or "indie") is satisfied in their own knowledge of their virtue, in a confidence that is unwavering because it is based in constant practice
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Replying to @erin_nerung
hm this is true but im not sure empathy in this sense qualifies as virtue?
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Replying to @eigenrobot
i thought "empathy" was universally understood as synonymous with Caring About Others? i was mainly joking/using a self-aggrandizing tone as mockery of those among us who like to self-hype
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in my case i just get a lot of unregulated emotional feedback, very hard to filter out maybe plainly "I have difficulty not responding to other people's emotional states" this is pretty value neutral to me, there are "good" and "bad" ways of dealing with this
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"Responding to other people's emotional states" is absolutely perceived as a positive trait, regardless of whether you do so voluntarily or not. It's quite beneficial to other people, though not necessarily to you.
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not if i anticipate them feeling things that would make me feel bad and so i weave subtle imperceptible and irresistible webs of social direction so that they can never hurt me with their feelings and they wake up twenty years later and think wait a minute what just happened
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This does sound subpar but otoh I am not sure such things are widely expected of people who say they have a difficult time not responding to other folks' emotions
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