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My feeling is that there is a minimum "depth" requirement to have full empathy and/or a moral code. If you want to imagine having neither, it's like being a creature (not human); answering only to you, with no other bonds. Your motivation for doing things need only that it's felt they're worth doing. In some ways, like a small kid that doesn't know better. but also denying full responsibility for actions.
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I had wanted to post in this thread
Constructing morals without empathybut it was considered too old so a mod made my post there into a a new topic, so I'll change the subject, too.
Does anyone have an opinion on how psychopathy is not considered a diagnosis outside forensic settings? Currently I'm only aware of callous/unemotional as an additional descriptor for the DSM under anti social personality disorder. I feel psychopaths do exist separately, but progress is slow because they have to sort through a population that has a lot of functional members (many psychopaths not strictly disordered). Unfortunately, the message we seem to get is as though only ASPD exist.