What is Empathy????

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Is having Asperger's means you dont have empathy??? or less of it???

Does this mean that you wont feel anything after watching this? Its a video of a Marine in Iraq throwing a dog off a cliff. It is quite disturbing and horrifyingly cruel to animals.

http://filecabi.net/video/US-Soldier-th ... cliff.html

What is supposed to be your reaction to this if you have aspergers and therefor lack empathy? Are you supposed to not feel anything after seeing this?

please tell me. I was quite horrified about this and i just want to know other peoples reactions....

*warning* there may be innapropriate ads in the backround

It's horrible!! !! Poor doggie!
I have Empathy!! !! !! !

I watched it before and again now. I don't feel any empathy. I don't really feel bad for things i'm supposed too like if somebody dies, sick. I may feel bad a little bit but never enough to show any facial expression that I am.

I don't show facial expressions, but inside I'm very upset.

not me, I just didn't feel anything. I'm like whatever.

A sense of shared experience, including emotional and physical feelings, with someone or something other than oneself. ...

understanding another person's feelings by remembering or imagining being in a similar situation.

The process by which one agent’s affective state (the target) modulates in a similar way to that of another agent (the source), drawing on situation or expression.

Understanding, being aware of, and being sensitive to the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another without actually sharing the feelings or emotions of another.

The ability to experience sympathetically the emotions of another; the emotional penetration of another person, frequently used in connection with the creator of a work of art.

a faculty and a virtue, is a combination of Imagination and the Love of God that gives complete understanding of what others are feeling. Develop empathy, which is born of Christlike Compassion, because self-based sympathy invites life to kick your teeth in.

is interpreted as the ability to take oneself out of oneself and put oneself into another person's world.

The imaginative projection into another's feelings, a state of total identification with another's situation, condition, and thoughts.

More than feeling compassion or sympathy “for” another person, empathy puts you in their shoes to feel “with” them or “as one” with them.

While empathy is becoming a more common dream symbol than it was even ten years ago, it still remains a fairly rare element to come across in the dreaming experience.

A feeling on the part of the reader of sharing the particular experience being described by the character or writer

putting yourself in someone else’s place and imagining how that person must feel.

understanding and entering into another's feelings

Empathy (from the Greek εμπάθεια, "to make suffer") is commonly defined as one's ability to recognize, perceive and directly experientially feel the emotion of another.

the bad feelings that go with this video probably have more to do with disgust than empathy or lack of

well a knot turned in my stomach and my mouth opened in horror? does that count as empathy?

fix'd



(...you really think the words "azn teen hottie" on the side of the page would be what's offensive to some?)

Sorry, I got pissed. I dunno if that counts.

I think most of us here will tell you it's not that we lack empathy, it's just that we have difficulty communicating this feeling to others so they can understand it. (example: friend tells you her grandmother died- you feel bad for her, but your expression doesn't naturally show this and she might think you're being unempathetic.)

I hope someone throws that guy off a cliff, see how he likes it

ease up on the soldier a little; he has to murder people for a living. I think expecting him to care about a dog is a little harsh, considering that. poor dog, though.

[quote=(...you really think the words "azn teen hottie" on the side of the page would be what's offensive to some?)[/quote]

just being on the safe side. Dont know how people react. Some admin/mods can be real jerks and make a big fuss. Chats can be that way too.

It's fairly easy to project and imagine how you would feel if you were in the situation of another person or animal, which is how I understand empathy. Reading people is another matter. External cues are supposed to mean something, but it's difficult. My motto about this: You can either leave it to me to guess what you're feeling and experiencing or you can tell me about it and then I will know. Telepathy makes for great movies and novels, but communication doesn't work that way in real life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLILr5BmfIM
Anyways, I didn't feel that bad when I saw the original video of the dog getting thrown of the cliff, but I knew it was wrong. I just kind of stared at the screen with a blank face, deep in thought.

That was so wrong....I can't believe anyone would do that. It pisses me off.....