Whenever someone is against you, you project that they must be angry. Have you ever thought that, perhaps, they aren't angry? Do you need to imagine other people as angry to justify your own, harbored anger, that even you admit you typically do nothing about?
without the ability to assiciate positively or negatively with something, how does one know not to touch the stove?
I like the feeling of pain, and even I recognize that as a bad idea.
the difference is that the sociopaths chooses to live in a mental reality that focuses on what's in front of them, and as a result, they don't really choose to take the time to feel.
What makes it a choice for them?
I don't think everyone against me is angry at all. I do think some people here got offended by some of the things I said to them though, but that doesn't necessarily mean they were angry.
They'll deny it, of course, because they don't want to admit the truth.
As for my anger... I never said I do nothing about it. I have acted on it in the past, but I've since learned that it's better to have self-control and confront the problem in a more mature manner, than to act out and do something foolish in the heat of the moment.
Is this discussion akin to "nature vs. nurture?" Are we trying to split desire from impulse? Acting on a desire might result in "pleasure" while acting on an impulse gives "relief." Do feelings have to be involuntary to qualify as "proper?" Is taking time to evaluate and reason through how one feels about something merely "opinion?" It is a dance between societal signals and norms, the chemistry of our brains, and the cognition that tries to unify the two. For some there are less steps between them. I don't know if any single step need be dependant on another. I got to bring up the question again: Does a rational examination of emotion of any kind invalidate the feeling? Is there some magic in there that others are frightened to dispel? Your feelings are your own. Who likes being told how to feel? Is there only one way to feel about something, all the time? How long do we have to determine our feelings before it is considered fabricated?
The more time I spend time and discuss here, the more I grow concerned I'm another sociopath lying to themselves that they aren't a sociopath, while thinking I'm the normal one and all of you are the crazy.