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As DQ says there is a difference between empathy and sympathy, people with autism have difficulty detecting and perceiving the signs of emotion in others. We don't make eye contact, we get little from it, we don't decode the signs that betray emotion. If you are not good at empathy then you may struggle to understand that other people have emotional, feeling human minds within their physical shells. Such people are said to have poor Theory of Mind (AIUI).
There is a big difference between ISIS and the islamic faith. ISIS followers are happy to post youtube videos of executions of infidels. Life in the islamic state would not be my choice, I much prefer life in Britain. The islamic faith is a different thing altogether and has many principals in common with many other faiths. CC, would you like to clarify your remarks which might be interpreted as supporting a terrorist organisation? Life in a western democracy is not perfect but it makes specific provision and allowance for people who have differences (beliefs, gender, sexual preferences, disabilities such as ASC). I don't think you would find life in the islamic state tolerable.
CC, I think you should try and understand that if there is such outrage and horror at the events in Paris that there may be something genuinely human about the reaction and that your reaction might be considered offensive by many people.
120 deaths is significant to most people as they have sympathy for the 120 fellow human beings with feelings and emotions being murdered without any justification. The deaths of so many children under 5 is also outrageous to many people but it doesn't make the 120 deaths in Paris irrelevant.
I agree with most of what you say, because I feel exactly the same way.
Where I disagree is with the idea of 'punishing the perpetrators'.
When I examine it carefuly, I have more in common with ISIS than I do with tories. I would share things equally qith everyone. If someone needed my last fiver more than I did, I'd give it to them. I certainly abhor the idea that anyone is better than anyone else, 'elite' if you will, and I am horrified that people really do believe that it's OK to harm people in the name of the profits, let alone in the name of the Prophet.
Since the tories introduced benefit restrictions, over 3000 British people have died because they have lost all hope, food, warmth, homes etc. This is an offcial statistic (look it up on the BBC website) but that's OK? I don't get it.
Kinda makes 120ish dead people insignificant, and what a horrible thing that is to be able to say. By the way, 120 children die on this planet every two hours of every day of every week. Right now. And, they're dying because they haven't had nutritious food, clean water or basic medical care, which latter often costs mere pennies a day.
This means that worldwide, between your original post and this reply, 1800 innocent children have died needlessly. Bet you won't see that on the news. Try this, published by the World Health Organisation:-
6.3 million children under the age of five died in 2013.
I am left to marvel that the same people pretending all this high emotion over a few people in Paris wouldn't even know either this figure, or the causes of those deaths, but far worse for me is that, underneath it all, they really couldn't care less. If they did, it wouldn't be happening, would it?
Life on an uncaring, unsharing planet. Now I definitely know that I was accidentaly born on the wrong one!
