be Patrick Bateman
fall and hit ur head
doctor says it‘s brian damage
???
"Hi, I am Michael J. Burry and this is why we are in a bubble"
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Please spell out what is supposedly wrong without your brain, thx.
acquired psychopathy
Damn that sucks, but I bet it's really freeing to no longer have to worry about empathy. I would never wish the same on myself, but it would be interesting to see what it feels like for a day or two.
There are disabilities that involve reduced empathy. Autism for reduced cognitive empathy and ASPD/NPD for reduced affective empathy. They both seriously impair relationship skills. People with ASPD often have criminal records because they did something stupid like shoplift breath mints and then punch out the cop who caught them. Empathy is a form of intelligence, and if you can't imagine how people are going to feel when you do shitty things, then you'll tend to do shitty things and get in lots of trouble for it.
What do mean by "cognitive empathy"?
Affective empathy is the ability to understand someone else's feelings. Cognitive empathy is the ability to understand someone else's thoughts.
Cognitive empathy is really useful for lying, because you can anticipate how someone will think about what you tell them. It's also good for social deduction and interpersonal problem solving. You might use it at a job interview to intuit that your potential employer values modesty, so you understate your accomplishments to win her approval and get the job. Poker is all about cognitive empathy, the goal is to read the value of your opponents' cards on their faces. It can help you to recognise unwritten rules and to absorb information by cultural osmosis. If you want to bend a rule, cognitive empathy will help you gauge how the relevant authority will react, and whether you'll be allowed to bend it.
In short, cognitive empathy is one of the most essential skills to living life as part of a society in a world full of people who don't always say what they really mean. Which is an accurate description of nearly all neurotypicals.
To add to that - I believe I have reduced empathy and the effect is that I cling to rules as much as I can because they are the only sensible guide what's right and what's not. I know I have some empathy - just lower than normal folk. Still can't imagine how it is to have none.
well normally i'm on my computer allthe time soi don't really need to think about anyone else
What if turned me into Jason Bateman?
What if it turned me into Master Bateman?
i guess you're really good at laundering money for the cartels now? (don't tell me how it ends, i didn't see the last season)
I'm pretty sure his father gets arrested and he has to keep the family together by taking over their real estate development business.
Cue family hijinks!
What if it turned me into Batman?
you're luckier than i am
joke's on you, i was already schizoaffective and autistic, and i have tourette's syndrome, which comes with add and ocd. also i'm a stutterer
What a fun little cocktail your brain is.
Weird flex, but OK.
I'm not into murders and executions like Patrick, though, I'm more about lies, deception, and treachery. I am now the kind of person who works for whoever pays me the most. Well I hope the progressives have deep pockets because I still like them
This is what I've found. Most unfeeling monsters are woke because they like being treated well by leftists. They don't want to have to hang out with racists because those guys suck to be friends with. So they put in an effort to maintain positive relationships with nice queer people.
i've heard that psychopaths are more than happy to work with anyone. also this is the golden age of right wing grifters so plenty of them are close to trump.
I'm more about lies, deception, and treachery.
What if that's a lie??
This man needs J̶e̶s̶u̶s̶ Tzeentch.
Man
Heh. Illusion functioning as intended.
Lol sorry for the assumption, my bad
have you killed someone?
lmao no....don't worry i'm not gonna break the law, i really like not being in prison
That is indeed the best place to be lol
Is that the big short
Yes.
I like the part when he crafts that email saying that he's temporarily freezing all his investors' accounts due to the ongoing defrauding of the U.S. government, then presses send, then turns around and ignores the computer while all the hate mails flow in.
I've never seen American Psycho though. Is it the same actor?
Yes.
Ok I can see the resemblance now lol
He also did a sci-fi dystopian movie called Equilibrium which is one of my favourite projects he did.
you're right, i picked the image i did because it's patrick bateman in a different movie