Do not confuse Emotional Numbness with Apathy.

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Do not confuse Emotional Numbness with Apathy.

I have found that many people mistake emotional numbness with apathy.

Apathy is the refusal to become involved with other people, various situations, and various problems.

Emotional numbness is lack of empathy towards oneself and others.

While a psychopath is born without the ability to feel empathy towards other. Normal people can become emotionally numb through cruelty, neglect, and other forms of abuse over time, which emotionally numb a normal person to the point where said person no longer has the ability to have empathy for anyone, not even him or herself.

Such people are known as sociopaths.

One of the greatest mistakes those with power over people can make is considering an emotionally numb people to being the same as an apathetic people.

Emotionally numb people are capable of committing great and terrible horrors and crimes. This is due to the emotionally numb people feeling no remorse for their would-be victims, while also said people feeling so numb towards themselves, that they feel no fear of possible personal consequences for their own actions.

While apathetic people do have empathy for themselves and other people. Apathetic people care enough about people to realize the dangers of becoming involved in the problems of other people. That likely such problems cannot be fixed by interference, and the situation will likely become worse, with those that interfere also likely suffering for becoming involved in a given situation.

MGTOW are apathetic by nature. But, we MGTOW are not emotionally numb. Those MGTOW that do not care what is going on around them have to willfully do so. And we MGTOW do so because we realize the possible risks of becoming involved in various situations. We MGTOW walk away for our own sake and self-preservation.

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I would say a mix of apathy,amusement and pity.

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