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Lady regrets voting for Trump after her terminally ill, undocumented father is detained.
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I don't know. My sister is a psychopath. She cannot understand the feelings of the other people around her, no matter how clearly or explicitly or adamantly they are explained to her.
We have a lot of psychopaths out there running the government and in positions of power and in positions of authority and serving as megaphones for their interests.
No amount of explaining empathy or extending hands or teaching will ever get through to these people.
They are fundamentally broken in a way that cannot be fixed.
That's what I was trying to get at with my talk of incentives and external validation - Stop trying to "fix" them and accept that they lack the capacities that we take for granted.
I'm through with caring about what's in someone's heart of hearts. Can we get them to behave, even if it's out of fear of being ostracised? Fine. Good enough.
Then work on the conditions that make people maladaptive (or really just adaptive to a mal world) separately.