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You know what kind of people lack empathy? Psychopaths. Narcissists. You know, assholes.
And republicans
But you repeat yourself...
Cluster B Personality Disorders is just medicalized terminology for “evil assholes.”
Too broad of a brush stroke. BPD isn't as toxic as NPD or ASPD. Even within NPD there are variations of toxicity. Cluster B's nickname is the "dramatic and erratic" cluster, and some of what falls within there is much more about trauma fallout than evil megalomania.
Maybe not as toxic, but as someone who fell for and dated a girl with BPD (who wasn't diagnosed until years after we broke up), I can tell you from experience: it's brutal.
To clarify for anyone reading who doesn't know the acronym, BPD is Borderline Personality Disorder, not Bipolar Disorder.
As someone who was the target of BPD rage for years, I say, from experience, that BPD can be every bit as dangerous and potentially life-destroying as NPD or ASPD.
I stand by what I said.
Or, to be more charitable, a scientific attempt to understand what it is that makes someone become a clinical asshole, in hopes of "curing" assholes.
A noble, if futile effort.
Nazis
B-B-But AuTiStIc !!!
You jest, but that's actually an important point for understanding. What narcissists and autists share in common is difficulty taking social perspective. They struggle to or are unable to see what something looks like from the other participant's perspective. The reasons why they have this difficulty are different though. Narcissists don't regard others as equals and instead see them as resources to use or discard. Its a problem of delayed social-emotional maturation. Autists have pragmatic communication differences possibly due to neurological differences. They lack the hardware and software needed to do effortless empathic reading of others. However, they are often perfectly willing to learn how to do empathy as a foreign language (cognitive empathy) when they get to the point where they appreciate their difficulties and see the utility in learning how to compensate.