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I tend to be concerned about certain people but generally I don't have much empathy towards people. I tend to feel really horrible when I watch animals suffer. When I don't really have a strong reaction towards people. I not even reactive when people treat me poorly. I generally brush it off.
Animals give total unconditional love once they've bonded with you. People betray and deceive. I would like to see the death sentence for people who abuse animals. They're the worst kind of human and we don't want them among us. I understand completely.
I am exactly the same. Animals do things because they need to. Humans do things out of spite, greed, and lust/want.
I despise ppl who hurt/abuse or kill animals for sport or amusement. I wonder to myself if they cant treat an animal with respect or at least dignity how can they possibly treat another human with respect. Ppl like that need to be separated from humanity so that the rest of us can evolve without those traits.
So yes i think it is quite normal not to care for a species that finds some kind of pleasure in harming those life forms that are for the most part incapable of defending themselves.
Depends on my mood.
I can feel very strong empathy for people I don't even know sometimes... then other times I just think "nah, fuck you all I'm going to be a hermit in Patagonia somewhere".
People are fucking stupid sometimes... but I am one too and probably as stupid, so I feel empathy.
No, that's not normal. Animals are generally more innocent and dependent than humans, yes. But that doesn't mean you should have very little empathy towards humans.
I think it's good that you feel anything towards any kind of suffering at all. Compassion in any form is always a blessing, even if it's just towards animals it's better than nothing. That much i can tell you.
Nope, it's not a debate about how you, OP, should or shouldn't feel. It's probably not normal, but maybe you've been hurt and disappointed by more people than you can count, Lord knows I have. I'm not gonna judge you.
He's not wrong. It isn't normal. Typically humans are social creatures and they interact with each other and sympathize and empathize with each other regularly.
When a human doesn't show compassion or empathy in this case it's a sign of clinical psychopathic behavior.
I know most people think murders and rapist and blah blah and those people CAN be psychopaths but generally they are sociopaths. A Psychopath is something entirely different from a sociopath and there is no requirement of murder or anything on either side.
Clinical Psychopathy :
a personality disorder characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, egotistical traits.
Of Which arguably you have shown signs of both sides of the definition just in this thread alone. It's not like a light switch that is either on or off, there are degrees of it. Some people are the full on crazies who have zero consideration for human life and others are more like me and have mild tendencies which sounds more like you. I have several disorders that overlap so I don't display egotistical traits but you kinda come off that way with the whole, "this is not a debate" bit.
I'd recommend you talk to a therapist and don't mention that someone else said you might be and see if their diagnosis comes up the same.
I am NOT a psychoanalyst nor a therapist of any type though I have taken most of the courses to do so, so please don't take my word for it but I think it would be good for your mental health to find out if it's biological or if it is as RoseIsabella said and maybe related to emotional distress.
Perhaps this feeling is down to the fact that animals can't beg for mercy or ask for help.
Humans can.