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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.
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.
