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You are claiming to be a psychopath? Otherwise, I don't see why you would tell if one can feel love or not.

What I can tell is that love isn't what that hypothetical Psychopath was doing when they gave that gimmicky present to their partner.

I wonder, is it considered love to shovel more coal into the burner in order to keep the pleasure train going? 

"I agree, but how psychology is now, the boxing thing will remain. There's no problem with the psychology itself, but how people use it, but to make it so these people don't misuse it, it must be changed, if that makes sense."

It does, but who's to say what answer is "right"? 

Still. Not. Listening.

I never claimed to know what empathy feels like. I specifically said I do not know what most things feel like, because people, myself included, cannot judge what they do not know.

I also said everyone feels love differently, because everyone has a different mind. You cannot say 'people with empathy feel love this way across the board' because you can only judge for one person; yourself.

Just like I said people without empathy CAN feel love. I never said they all do the way I know I do. You're being quite hypocritical here; you're telling me I can't judge for an entire group (when I'm not), but in the same breathe saying no psychopath can feel love.

Then it isn't real love. Just a facade. Again, you can't slap the word on something that isn't what it's supposed to be.

You are trying to say that no one has the ability to tell for certain what X or Y feels because they haven't "experienced" it, yet, you somehow feel entitled to say what a certain group feels because you claim you feel that way. How do you know what empathy feels like if you don't relate to that experience? The truth is made of both the experience and perception.

You don't know what people have or haven't experienced. But you sure as hell can take 700 people and observe.

Phoe's Phenomenology.

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Sigh it doesn't matter what I claim to be or not be, because you won't listen regardless.

Again, no, what I described is not love, but putting effort in to make both parties happy is an example of expression of it.

Hayasa is making a very good point, which you seem to keep missing.

What you described has nothing to do with love and therefore, cannot be an expression of it.

Point exactly. We'll never know which answer is right, so nothing will ever be fixed.

Knowledge is a paradox, m'dear. The more you know, the less you know.

"If you like someone, they make you happy. You generally try to make them happy, for whatever reason. Love is a strong form of that, according to your dictionary. So, my example of expression was perfectly fine."

I guess the question ought to be "Can a psychopath be happy?" and if so, "In what ways?". When the ways are identified it'll likely be easier to identify if those ways fit within "Love" or not by comparing the two.

Damn, this thread went off the rails and halfway through the woods.

Well, how do you think a psychopath can be happy? More importantly, how do you think they can't be happy?