I think it's increasingly easier to feel empathy for a killer the more steps there are between them and the trigger. I personally find it much more jarring when someone can just fully turn off empathy when given context. A lot of the time what you're talking about goes hand-in-hand with dehumanizing the impoverished, that's the one I can't fathom.
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There are lots of poor narcissists too...
Maybe because they think one day they will be rich, so obviously rich people are still people.
But they will never be poor, because poor people aren't people.
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2025
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