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#14632 - 01/05/01 07:18 AM What do you call someone who...
Chickie newbie Registered: 01/05/01 Posts: 35	cannot empathize? Is there a technical term for this? One from the doctor's textbook? New Here! This is my first post. Looks like fun! I can see that I will be consulting my dictionary quite a bit to understand everything here! [blush}
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#14633 - 01/05/01 08:19 AM Re: What do you call someone who...
wsieber old hand Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 1010 Loc: Switzerland	Hi, You start off on a hot one! I hope you are not going to use it straight away on a real person. In the extreme, pathological case such a character would be an autistic person.
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#14634 - 01/05/01 10:26 AM Re: What do you call someone who...
Bobyoungbalt veteran Registered: 11/22/00 Posts: 1289	Hmmm. Instead of going to the dictionaries, I would have another look in Pride and Prejudice for Elizabeth Bennet's impressions of Mr. Darcy.
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#14635 - 01/05/01 12:03 PM Re: What do you call someone who...
Chickie newbie Registered: 01/05/01 Posts: 35	Right! Hot question! But not in the pathological extreme -- just your run-of-the-mill self-absorbed person. Any technical classification for a person like this?
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#14636 - 01/05/01 12:10 PM Re: What do you call someone who...
Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Registered: 11/13/00 Posts: 3146 Loc: Northamptonshire, England	Pyschotic? Selfish? A politician? _________________________ The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#14637 - 01/05/01 12:57 PM Re: What do you call someone who...
bear-tiger stranger Registered: 01/05/01 Posts: 2	Republican.
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#14638 - 01/05/01 02:17 PM Re: What do you call someone who...
Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/12/00 Posts: 3409	When asked "what do you call someone who cannot empathise?", bear-tiger suggested Republican That's torn it! As someone who prides himself on being devoutly apolitical, I feel obliged to warn you that our youngest board member, and staunch Republican, will no doubt feel compelled to weigh in - let' em have it, Jazz!
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#14639 - 01/05/01 02:18 PM Re: What do you call someone who...
TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Registered: 07/17/00 Posts: 3467 Loc: Marion NC	> Republican. BUSHWA! Can't wait to hear Jazz :) Welcome aboard bear-tiger. _________________________ TEd
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#14640 - 01/05/01 02:38 PM Re: What do you call someone who...
Jazzoctopus old hand Registered: 07/03/00 Posts: 1094 Loc: Cincinnati & Loveland, Ohio, U...	Well, I was going to try to bit my tongue and not say anything, but since Max and Ted want some fire. . . I'll respond to bear-tiger's very subtle post by saying: And a person who wants to kill babies, force people into HMOs and tax people to death and who thinks that the Boy Scouts is a hate group is empathetic? And by the way Max, I wouldn't consider myself a staunch republican. The survey at http://www.speakout.com/VoteMatch calls me a moderate conservative. There are some republican ideas with which I don't agree, but when it comes to arguing, I go with the GOP. Plus, the way Al Gore makes a speech makes me sick.
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#14641 - 01/05/01 02:55 PM There's a place for this
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	If bear-tiger and JazzO would like they could take this to the Rant 'n' Rave booth at Car Talk's Cafe Dartre: http://cartalk.cars.com/Mail/BBS/Rant-And-Rave/index.html You can register here: http://cartalk.cars.com/Tools/bbs-user-admin.pl?add_form=1 Or you can post unregistered. And may the better man win.
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