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The Word Herder's avatar

Your speculation about what makes a psychopath is similar to mine.

It's hard to feel sympathy for them, when we see what they do, but they are still people...

I don't have all the answers... yet... ha ha ... but I want to have them, and I want to not hate anybody.

I think it gets easier with practice.

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I started out hating them because of what they're trying to do. With enormous effort to shift from this because that's not how I want to live, I now hate what they do. I feel sorry for them and sometimes I get angry at them.

Whenever I'm tempted to think ill of them, I imagine how it must be to want to make people miserable, control them, and push them into doing things that will make them lose their self-respect. Spending one's life doing that must be hell.

I do wonder about putting everyone in the public eye, from either side, into the mix though. Certainly, no one is perfect, but can't one fight for what's right? Some people live life on the small scale and some people don't. We all have a calling. I think right now anyone can step up and take on more responsibility. It's one of those moments when movement is easy because there is are spaces vacant needing to be filled.

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