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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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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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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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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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Pyschotic? Selfish? A politician?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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When asked "what do you call someone who cannot empathise?", bear-tiger suggested RepublicanThat'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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> Republican.
BUSHWA!
Can't wait to hear Jazz :)
Welcome aboard bear-tiger.
TEd
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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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