I can't really find solace in others' emotions when they themselves are precisely the ones getting in my way. Maybe it sounds psychopathic but we're only useful as tools to each other and my tools refuse to work properly and I don't want them having emotions.

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I can't really find solace in others' emotions when they themselves are precisely the ones getting in my way. Maybe it sounds psychopathic but we're only useful as tools to each other and my tools refuse to work properly and I don't want them having emotions.

Interesting. Don't know if I agree with that view, but thanks for the response.

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I can't really find solace in others' emotions when they themselves are precisely the ones getting in my way. Maybe it sounds psychopathic but we're only useful as tools to each other and my tools refuse to work properly and I don't want them having emotions.

That's sociopathic, not psychopathic. A psychopath take is more like "other people annoy me; they should all disappear!" (cackling optional)



I don't think acknowledging specific shared emotions is particularly helpful, compared to acknowledging that emotions in general affect and influence everybody. Singling out examples with negative connotations positions those as more relevant/important than they deserve.

Normalization of rhetoric and tactics which center and revolve around emotions like anger, fear, greed, hatred, etc is THE major contributor to why those tend to control society, instead of their alternatives.