This "Empathy is a superpower" is something that requires deeper thought
@sickburnbro it honestly kinda is.
When Christ talks about turning the other cheek, this is similar.
I've solved many social altercations by swallowing my pride and trying to humble myself. It Often results in reconciliation and a friendship, sometimes a very strong friendship.
This in my opinion is a technology best reserved for use with those of us who should be our allies.
When Christ talks about turning the other cheek, this is similar.
I've solved many social altercations by swallowing my pride and trying to humble myself. It Often results in reconciliation and a friendship, sometimes a very strong friendship.
This in my opinion is a technology best reserved for use with those of us who should be our allies.
@JSDorn For sure. The smart phrasing of 'turn the other cheek' is "be slow to anger"
If you can actually think about why people might be doing what they are doing, that's being empathic.
But most of these dumb women can't and just go and parrot lines of "empathy" around - and these are the kinds of people who that phrase was designed for.
If you can actually think about why people might be doing what they are doing, that's being empathic.
But most of these dumb women can't and just go and parrot lines of "empathy" around - and these are the kinds of people who that phrase was designed for.
@sickburnbro @JSDorn Empathy is on many layers: compassionate, emotional, and cognitive. She fails to reach any layer, as she is doing a low level fruit take just to say "incel bad, incel terrorist".
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Empathy would solve a lot, but the question is, what to do, when one side lacks it completelly, yet believe otherwise?
@LukeAlmighty @Badmann @JSDorn Empath can't solve a lot though because in order to have empathy, you have to expend effort, and so "having empathy for everyone" is on the face, a lie.
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From this empathy topic, you can make one of those bell curve graphs in which the midwit view is sandwiched and ridiculed from both sides.
The grug has limited ability to project himself into the shoes of others.
The midwit is good at it, but also insists ( as an article of faith ) that everybody is basically the same and this projection is always possible if you just try hard enough.
Just a little wisdom is enough to imagine minds that just experience, think and feel different from ones own.
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This gives the mediocre a reason to feel superior to everyone else and deem everyone who disagrees on the left side of the curve.
From this empathy topic, you can make one of those bell curve graphs in which the midwit view is sandwiched and ridiculed from both sides.
The grug has limited ability to project himself into the shoes of others.
The midwit is good at it, but also insists ( as an article of faith ) that everybody is basically the same and this projection is always possible if you just try hard enough.
Just a little wisdom is enough to imagine minds that just experience, think and feel different from ones own.
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This gives the mediocre a reason to feel superior to everyone else and deem everyone who disagrees on the left side of the curve.
@sickburnbro @LukeAlmighty @Badmann @JSDorn No, it isn't a lie. It's the end result of a process that continually repeats, over and over at every level over the generations. It's something we can perceive is possible, even if it's difficult to the level of impossible to achieve in practice.
https://www.visionofearth.org/media/talks/our-global-human-tribe-how-we-must-extend-empathy-beyond-our-religion-and-nation/
There's a difference between a lie and a falsity, a desire and the situation on the ground. Because we can bend reality closer to our desire through our actions.
I mean, I don't have empathy for everyone. but people, including christians, muslims and others who really do try to expand the circles of their empathy have my respect for their efforts.
Maybe it'll never work. Maybe empathy will always be weaponized, and reasoning with those who have zero empathy for you won't work, and you'll be taken advantage of before it gets to the global scale. But like human rights and democracy, some things are worth striving for even if they'll never be truly universal.
https://www.visionofearth.org/media/talks/our-global-human-tribe-how-we-must-extend-empathy-beyond-our-religion-and-nation/
There's a difference between a lie and a falsity, a desire and the situation on the ground. Because we can bend reality closer to our desire through our actions.
I mean, I don't have empathy for everyone. but people, including christians, muslims and others who really do try to expand the circles of their empathy have my respect for their efforts.
Maybe it'll never work. Maybe empathy will always be weaponized, and reasoning with those who have zero empathy for you won't work, and you'll be taken advantage of before it gets to the global scale. But like human rights and democracy, some things are worth striving for even if they'll never be truly universal.
@sickburnbro @Badmann @JSDorn @LukeAlmighty One thing for sure though: empathy *does* take effort, and effort requires enough wealth that you can afford to expend it
@jeffcliff @Badmann @JSDorn @LukeAlmighty I get where you are going, but what I'm talking about is the difference of the truth of what having empathy is and the lie is. The idea that any real type of empathy can be had on a non-personal level is a lie, you can have sympathy, but they are not the same.
Yes, empathy will always be weaponized because that is how people are. There are millennia old warnings about people looking pious who aren't.
Yes, empathy will always be weaponized because that is how people are. There are millennia old warnings about people looking pious who aren't.
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Be careful when spreading your empathy. I get it, that you think it is beneficial, and I also used to believe so, but the boarders have to be made if you want your society to survive.
Obviously, almost any western nation has a common herritage by now, and many nations are compatible despise not having it. Russians are the most chill people I've ever known, and vietnamese are hard workers.
But when it comes to Muslim people, they see murdering you as a virtuous act. Most westerners seem to not understand the concept, but it will cost us way too many lives to re-learn this lesson.
@LukeAlmighty @Badmann @JSDorn @sickburnbro I'm aware of how thoroughly broken islam is. Islam is the #1 thing that has got to go, if we're serious about making an empathic world
