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Little boy me would simply say "Eww rat, gross". Rodents aren't cute.
I said that because it's a fucking joke. That's not how evolution works.

I'm not arguing if humans are capable of empathy. Obviously they are and because we are able to empathize that much, it can be used as a tool of oppression and exploration.
It's the primary method of getting non ideologues on board with hate speech laws.
Yes. American Republicans (with the big r) are assholes because they are just corporate shills, but most health care costs aren't people getting a terrible illness early or being born with it. Most health care costs are from people living objectively unhealthy lifestyles. That's why tax funded health care works pretty well in places like Japan, because they don't live unhealthy.
This is an another way of weaponizing empathy. Using the sick to get people to pay for someone's shitty life choices.
Another example is grifters crying harrasment to get donations.

If people do not cooperate, so you stop too and leave them and then they suffer consequences of that decision, wouldn't blind empathy say to give them free stuff?
I should have formulated the question better: How do you deal with people actively sabotaging cooperation? Isn't imprisonment a good option? But wouldn't blind empathy say we should free them?
The mechanism for dealing with shitty people are in us, but they only work on an interpersonal level and don't work 100% of the time.
I'm really trying not to use the S word.

Here's a pepe for ya.

finland is the happiest country because all the sad people commit sudoku
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