Michael, your an interesting member here at PC. I know in my own interactions with you I have had to stop and think about how to explain things to you in a very different way. Most people who do have empathy communicate with each other based on touching on that area of common emotionality. It becomes a sense that is learned because by listening to another in emotional pain, we can truely relate to that pain and offer methods to reason beyond that struggle with emotions.

With you, it is more challenging because you simply cannot base your responses from emotional experience. Everything you do is based on intellectual capacity as well as using that intellect to observe emotionality. I think about observing someone riding a horse and presenting that horse with trained capacities. I could sit with someone and explain the various training methods applied to achieve that end result. However I must know that without that person actually going through thru the motions of feeling that interaction take place, they cannot appreciate the amount of time and efforts that take place for that achievement. Therefore, as much as I try to express the lengthy process for both rider and horse, I will only be able to educate an observer to a certain extent which would just leave them with a general knowledge of a process without that ability of appreciation of what it means to personally experience that task. So at most all I can do is educate a spectator on the conformations of horse to look for, the intelligence level, the amount of desire of the horse for achievement needed, and a step by step process needed to present a winning valuable athlete. There will be a limit of appreciation for that process without the personal experience of actually producing that end result.

When you disclose the fact that your a psychopath, what most people are presented with is the information that you do not have the capacity to empathize at all. So what that means to those who do have that ability is that no matter what they present to you emotionally, you will never appreciate or know to respect that part of them. And psychopaths are defined as preditors who truely only think about personal gain and regard all others as mere objects that can either be disgarded or used for personal gain. It is known that there is a true absence of campassion or true guilt.

No real productive or postive information is presented "yet" that truely expresses a productive value in psychopaths that can be considered a "safe person" to interact with. This is not my personal opinion, it is only what is given as a description of what is known about psychopaths through current studies. And it will remain that way until the psychopaths that have presented productive useful qualities are presented. Lets face it, those psychopaths are not going to present themselves readily. So at the most the psychopaths that are known are typically ones that have proved to be a menace and danger to society.

As a person who considers a usefullness for all kinds of things, I personally am more apt to stop and consider how a psychopath CAN present a positive to society. To be honest I do think about that a lot as I struggle with the damage my obviously strong capacities for empathy can disrupt my progress and decision making as well as leaving a crippling residue of emotional doubt. Lets face it, empathy can lead to many crippling conditions, and I am sure as you do not experience that it must come across to you as very disruptive and even shear stupidity as well as a complete waste of time and energy.

What I question " is the intellect present in those that do not have the emotions that can prevent progress, have the ability to progress beyond to reason out solutions that will benefit many?" So as far as psychopaths are concerned, my question would be is a psychopath capable of using the added intelligence to present solutions for many or are they just only capable of resolving and manupulating their intelligence simply for personal gain?

I do not have the answer, no one has that and until that question is answered the stigma of doubt will remain as those whom tend to manipulate only for personal gain with no ability to consider or respect anything other than themselves. I am simply expressing what is known now, not my personal opinion. I personally, as I mentioned, wonder about how psychopaths can be some kind of useful resourse not yet considered? I have already mentioned in another thread that I believe they have always been present and have served a purpose in the survival of primitive groups. And I do know that in animals that survive in groups there are different capacities that are needed to form the group, even in horses and in dogs as well.

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