The fact that this is even a real headline should trouble everybody. I know the answer, but the question still is:” what kind of a state is the USA in where someone even feels the need to write this, rather than it being an assumed norm?”
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Musk: "The fundamental weakness is empathy" Also Musk: "Why are people so mean to me"
Oxy, meet moron.
he has neither intelligence or empathy. he turned intoa space karen, because he mangled his penis in a botched surgery
I'm down with calling him Space Karen from now on, actually.
All opposed?
You know who lacks empathy? Psychopaths.
This paper says this about it:
Importantly, empathy is such an essential component of healthy human social interactions that absence of it may lead to severe social and cognitive dysfunctions. A personality structure often marked by a lack of empathy is psychopathic personality.
Musk is once again pretending to know about things he's clueless about.
Lack of empathy is how I characterize Republicans or conservatives in general. It explains every single one of their policy position.
there also very good at pretending to have empathy, which is another key trait. hence why we seen "so many people" become super right wing as time goes on.
Ya, I think that's psychopathy and also pretty common.
Musk is a weakness
Empathy is a weakness for sociopaths, and only sociopaths can be billionaires. So it's not a universal weakness, but it is a weakness for him.
Musk found out that the people that like him now, after pissiing off the nerds and tech enthousiasts, base their world view on the works of Ayn Rand, who peached that empathy and governement help is bad.
Disregarding that Rand died penniless and on governement hand outs.
But musk will find out again that, no matter how much money he flings at it, nobody will like him for who he is and that void will eat him up though it may make him do more silly things. And That's a shame
Ya know, the irony here, nobody is gonna feel bad for him either.
Yup no pity
Empathy is one of the foundational blocks of the society he abuses.
What an asshole
The fact he says this, he proves that he really never cared for the human good, all that talk was just to people buy his shit.
I guess it closes the debate about Musk being autistic. Autistics are more likely to be hyper empathetic.
Narcissists can display similar traits similar to autistic people. You’re right, he’s not autistic, just a narcissist.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder, perhaps?
Speaking as someone who is autistic, autism is rarely a one-size fits all diagnosis.
While Hyper Empathy can be a side-effect of Autism, another is the exact opposite where your sense of empathy is limited to "So what have you done for me lately?", in this case the person has absolutely no understanding of interaction outside of it being transactional.
Musk is definitely this kind
First, I didn't write all of them.
Now on the subject of autism and empathy, empathy is widely misinterpreted and misunderstood in autistics. The lack of empathy stereotype is based on the deficit model of autism and therefore on the lack of theory of mind. This model has roots in eugenic and neocolonialism (also known as neurocolonialism) and is deeply ableist.
We have great research with good methodology and ethics (the opposite is true for the deficit model) about autistics not lacking theory of mind and being empathetic (often hyper empathetic). They just show empathy differently than the neurotypical. This is in fact true for many stereotypes about autism. Autism is a different cognitive style to process information, communicate (including emotions) and learn.
It's where the Double Empathy Problem of Dr. Damian Milton comes in. It's the difference and not the lack between two or more individuals/group of individuals that makes the understanding issue.
We are plenty of autistics on Lemmy.
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Empathy as a weakness is exactly what I'd expect to hear from a sociopath. If everybody thought this way, we'd have no civilized society.
Empathy is a skill and he doesn't have it.
It's a useful skill if you're trying to cultivate a popular following. The funny thing is that he used to have it and was quite good at feeling people out for a popular vibe. Now he's too ketted out to feel anything. Just a rolling ball of Id, bouncing between hungry, cranky, and horny.
I wonder if he was ever good at it, or if before he got a pass on being a weird guy because his goals seemed positive (save the planet, push tech forward). Now that he's fixated on manosphere/nazi shit, more people are less willing to overlook his idiosyncrasies.
I think he had a really good PR firm and they said fuck this shit after he called a guy a pedophile for not using his shitty submarine.
I always thought he had a really good PR firm and fired them after they said no to his great idea for a rescue submarine. Just look at the press: everyone loves him, everyone hangs on his very word, he must know better
Some such people are really good at pretending to have empathy. I used to be with a narcissist who was a nurse. She could put on a good face, but in actuality she just got off on the sense of power over people who needed her help. In areas where being an awful person didn't threaten her job security, she had zero qualms about hurting or taking advantage of others, and she did so without hesitation when she felt it would benefit her.
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That… Makes absolutely no sense.
Greatest thing I did with my life was to increase my understanding of other people's lives. He is toxic, whether he's trolling or not
#shitsociopathssay
I get saying it's wrong what he said (you would be right) but imo it's kinda missing the point. The most important thing to see imo is it's extremely pathetic. This is the same mf faking Path of Exile and diablo accounts so he can seem cool (he kept saying he was a top player so he would get kudos from the gaming community).
This man is probably the most thin skinned idiot I've ever seen. So it must be extremely convenient for him to see himself as the bad guy with no empathy whose cold rational calculation leads to emotionless decisions or whatever huge cope he tells himself every day. The reality is he's got more money than God and is running the current US administration and yet is still so mentally weak he is posting on Twitter hundreds of times per day about how he's being persecuted and actually arguing in the comment sections
So when he crashes and burns, or dies of a drug overdose, I'm not supposed to care?
Cool. I think I can manage that.
He’ll achieve more lasting fame than the puppet who got elected. There will be endless psychological and economic studies on his rise and fall, trying to explain it.
As people shun his name there will be a legend of a mysterious unnamed figure who first brought compelling EVs to the masses, who revolutionized space access, and was willing to try futuristic ideas other companies are too afraid to invest in. We’ll never know who that was.
The name of Musk will forever be cemented as the oligarch with some sort of psychotic break who destroyed democracy, reduced the us government to a pandering mess of waste, fraud and corruption serving the whims of a few to the detriment of everyone else. Who was instrumental to wrecking decades of international influence and superpower status, who presided over the us fall from the biggest economy, and created a sharp inflection against scientific and technical innovation, and indirectly caused millions of deaths and great harm and suffering
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Fuck Joe Rogan for letting him say shit like that unchecked.
Fuck Joe Rogan, period.
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The lack of empathy, however, has been linked to psychopathy by study after study after study.
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If empathy is the weakness to my species, I'm glad we're committing suicide by capitalist made climate change.
Without empathy, we have no redeeming characteristics and nothing of value will be lost.
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