There are too much empathy!

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Why do so many people feel so much empathy?

I like to discuss war, revolutions and slavery from a pure platonic point of view, where no other feelings other than anger are present.

I see the death of individuals as a tradgedy, but the deaths of thousands as just "statistics".

When the death toll of a war reach above 50, I become cynical, and really don't care wether or not the death toll may end up in 200 or 200 billions!

Other people feel disgusted by me, but I just want to talk politics and statistics and the overall strategies.

I generally dislike poetry because it involves love and passion, except my own poetry which involves death, disease and sorrow, things that may scare me when I'm confronted with it, but at the same seems very fascinating!

Love is boring. War is exciting!

Anyone feel the same way?

Erm... not quite. Although what the people you are mentioning sound like they are experincing is sympathy, not empathy. It's difficult to empathise with a dead person.

There are?? WHERE??? They're coming arent they? Dammit I always knew this day would come and no one beleived me..

EVERYBODY RUN!! !! !

The "Emo" attitude - Facts are never so important as your emotional response to them - is taking over. It's easier to form an emotionally-based opinion than a fact-based opinion because not everybody knows all the facts (or would accept them if they did), but everybody has feelings.

For instance, saying the "F-Word or the "N-Word" elicit certain emotional responses, but how many people actually know, understand, and accept the factual origins and meanings of these words?

I agree. I like talking about war, and the history books don't say much about peaceful times... it's all about wars, disasters, and suffering. I guess peace is just too boring to write about.

So make war, not love.

In the beginning, there was nothing. Then the Lord said, "Let there be light!" and there was light. Nothing still happened, but at least you could see it if it did.

Don't play victim mitha

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^^I think BellaDonna is one of them, be carefull mitharatowen!

It isn't funny annabanana she has being making jokes about child abuse and I don't find that amusing!

I would like to add, however, that the REAL experience of war is rarely regarded as "fun." I think there was one soldier who described it as "long periods of boredom punctuated by brief moments of sheer terror." But unfortunately, there's just something about war which non-soldiers find, as Mr. Spock would put it, "fascinating."

Real fasinating Idiot!

there's a funny side to everything

Not when she is making personal jokes on behalf of me. I do not find that funny! Not the issues of what she jokes about and Like child rape etc Real funny@

I don't even think it's either empathy or sympathy. It seems to be some kind of way to avoid the conversation all together, I think it's a strategy used by people who can't really comprehend that things like that really happens. They use this form of emotional outburst to move away and not to think about it. I've come across this several times and everytime I try to persist, the emotional response increases untill I stop or they run away. They never bring up the subject on their own.

And about a bobycount, I too react strange to that, it seems allmost like the more people that died, the less I care. If it's one or two I pitty the familys, but more I start to grow bored. Very strange.

I don't find the killing itself interesting, but more the motive and the later inpact on history. And nothing makes a larger inpact then a lot of people dying.

"One persons death is a tragedy, a millions is politic."
//Stalin.


I think it's the pack instinct, how they all have a common goal and increase the "packs" territory. The feeling of power. (Few people imagine they'll lose.)


Please, he's stating a fact, not expressing an opinion. Most (males?) finds war interesting, possilby becouse we're more aggressive.

No he was making passive aggressive comments to insult me.