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SC: Are the absence of conscience and insensitivity to suffering what distinguishes psychopaths from normal people?See also: The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity
That is probably the key point that people need to understand. For years artists, writers, philosophers, and others have attempted to understand how it is that our world is an endless stream of suffering. They have attempted to find moralistic explanations. Łobaczewski spends the first part of his book discussing the futility of this approach, suggesting instead a scientific approach based upon an understanding of evil as a societal disease, as the actions of pathological deviants within a society. Without the ability to empathize with others, these people cannot feel that suffering, any more than a cat feels the suffering of a mouse when it toys with it prior to killing it. Bush can order thousands of American troops into Iraq or Afghanistan where they will be killed or permanently maimed, and where they will kill thousands and destroy an entire country, can sanction the torturing of prisoners, can support the actions of Israel in the Occupied territories or Lebanon, and none of the suffering he is causing is real to him. There is no hardware in these people that can process these emotions. They are incapable at the physiological levels of doing so.
The Trick of the Psychopath's Trade: Make Us Believe that Evil Comes from Others
"She's having a heart attack! She's having a heart attack! She needs help!"But rather than lending needed assistance, officers begin firing rubber bullets at them from a shotgun, followed up by volleys of tear gas.
Comment: This just proves once again that America is a serial brutalizer of people of color. The system is not broken, this is just what the US does - the entire country is suffering from a societal disease of pathocracy, where those pathological deviants who have risen to the top have finally caused the entire society to succumb to the grip of an epidemic psychosis.
And this does not bode well for humanity: Lament for Babylon