How can I not pity the pitiful?
Because it's a weapon often used by the psychopaths, sociopaths and covert narcissists to manipulate you.
If you have pity for a psychopath, you've lost.
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How can I not pity the pitiful?
Because it's a weapon often used by the psychopaths, sociopaths and covert narcissists to manipulate you.
If you have pity for a psychopath, you've lost.
I especially pity psychopaths. This does not equal losing. It doesn't even make winning harder. In fact, it improves my ability to defeat them, because I am honest about their debilitation. They are incapable of relating to their fellows, and this is indeed pitiful.
Being pitiful does not make you dangerous. Feeling pity doesn't stop you from being dangerous.
You don't have to hate something to handle it properly. Being afraid doesn't make you run away. A healthy person is able to handle their business as necessary and feel appropriately about the glory or tragedy - or both.
I grew up with a nest of 'em.
Your already in the losing position if you try to understand or pity them.
They are incapable of relating to their fellows, and this is indeed pitiful.
Pitying a great white shark for being a great white shark?...
Thing is, they're not normal great white sharks. They're broken people. They can't undertake normal human activities with the same normal human benefits. I don't have to like them, and I don't have to treat them as if they're special snowflakes to pity them.
I have been a hunter all my life, and I do not hate deer. I fucking love deer. I still can accurately aim at and shoot them dead, and then eat their corpses (although I have to admit I have cried more than once). Your emotions do not control you unless you let them.
If you're smart and undertake to, your emotions can usefully contribute to your rational prosecution of your life. I am old and have done a lot of killing of things I cared about deeply, to eat, because of overpopulation, or to end their suffering. I've never killed out of hate or fear, and I don't see any reason to start now.
My hate or fear is not an aspect of the object, but of me. My actions aren't dictated by others, but by me. My emotions don't make it necessary to act one way or another. I decide what to do.
I understand what you mean - re killing things - Been there. I've eaten a lot of things that I've killed.
I never 'enjoy' killing.
Lending an emotion to (pity) to an entity that will only it against you...?
It's not logical.
My emotions are not under the authority or control of anyone but me, and they are separate from my actions. How can my actions be considered the responsibility of someone else? My pity does not prevent me from acting, and if it does prevent me from anything it is inhumanity in my treatment of others.
Nothing murderous bastards could use against me.
My pity does not prevent me from acting,
Yes it does. You have to process the emotion. (The time it takes - is milliseconds to weeks).
Too late. (depending on the circumstances).
and if it does prevent me from anything it is inhumanity in my treatment of others.
That's the fundamental difference w have - you see psychopaths as human - a fatal flaw (literally) of understanding what they are.
Nothing murderous bastards could use against me.
No need to worry about that (anything being used against you), you'll already be dead. (depending on circumstances).
Have you ever known a full blown psycho?.
(my commiserations if you have)
This has nothing to do with whether or not I treat things, people or other things, humanely. I do not treat them humanely because they are people. I treat the most predatory creature I know, the household chicken, humanely - because I, not chickens, am humane.
It is perhaps this fundamental misunderstanding that prevents our agreement. Being humane to chickens does not prevent my killing them for my dinner. I kill them without hesitation, despite that I kill them without hatred.
I do not kill them out of hatred for them, or because they aren't kind to grasshoppers.
Neither do I approach psychopaths and their necessary treatment with hatred, although I surely do hate their cruelty. I do not become cruel to them because of their cruelty. They do not determine my treatment of them.
I do. I am not cruel. I am humane. Should psychopaths need killing and I be called upon to do it, I will do it, but I will not do so relishing the task, nor increasing their suffering out of hatred and cruelty - not because they are not cruel, but because I am not cruel.
Whether they are human or not, I am.