What does the term 'empathy' mean and how is it applicable to your identification with the term sociopath?
Here is an example definition:
Empathy refers to the ability to emotionally put oneself
into another person's place. It requires the ability to identify with
another individual. While it is not impossible to empathize with
someone with whom one has no commonality, even in the most extreme
cases, we share certain common features with other human beings,
specifically our dependence upon the hardware (our biological
bodies) upon which our software operates, ie, our minds cannot be
separated from our bodies. It may be possible to empathize with
completely alien life forms (and much science fiction depends upon just
such an ability) but even there we assume we share certain commonalities
relating to our dependence on our biology.
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