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Originally Posted by WaterAndWindSpirit
[Pedant mode] The Empathy advantage, as defined by GURPS, is Social Empathy, that is the ability to recognize emotions in others. You can very well have Empathy and Callous, which is actually common in sociopaths, who can read peoples' emotions and use them to better manipulate them. [/pedant mode]
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Minor pedantic nit with my fellow pedant: most sociopaths are obviously screwed up, not experts at manipulation. Most would actually have Low Empathy as that's pretty much what being unable or unwilling to understand normal human socialization instincts and rules mean.
It's when the sociopaths/psychopaths include an ability to manipulate others that all hell breaks loose in "monstrous" or "inhumane" forms of behavior common to movie psychos like Dr. Hannibal Lector etc.