Empathy is complex. There is nothing basic about it, nor does anyone enjoy the presumption that people shall be empathetic.
Paying attention.
The world is on fire while the Epstein class diddles.
Empathy is weakness to the most fragile little boys with insanely huge egos and a rapacious need to hurt everyone and anyone for a nickel.
I suppose this is a better way to put it. The more I learn about things the more angry I get. :( but it’s not that I’m changing, it’s that so many things are done for profit consequences be damned, or bigotry and racism.
Gross.
Agreed, the last few points are the product of indoctrination; and at least for the ‘profit’ part, capitalism is the problem.
The problem of indoctrination runs deep, that even bigotry can be seen within leftist areas (lemmy for example). Sexism, ageism and racism is just the tip of the iceberg.
How empathy came to be seen as a weakness in conservative circles
(Musk and Rogan warning)
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Case in point: this image is basically pure text, but in a form unperceivable to people who need actual text.
No empathy there.
Empathy truly is radical: far easier to proclaim than to universally practice.This is the story about liberals everywhere thanks for sharing.
True dat.
You aren’t born with empathy.
Very true. Empathy must be learned.
Usually, that would happen in early childhood … but with the way certain political movements have been villainizing empathy, I’m concerned that there might be half a generation of kids currently growing up whose parents actively avoided teaching them empathy…
Watch some young children, or even babies, and you’ll see that’s not generally true. It’s not perfect, you’ll definitely see some unempathic behaviour, but the basics are there. Babies and children will comfort each other, and often share. Even chimps and other primates have been seen showing empathy.
Empathy as a moral guide usually refers to universal empathy rather than a biased, discriminatory empathy favoring only an in-group.
Infants show biases such as in-group favoritism early
But the next finding surprised the researchers: When the puppet that dropped the ball did not share the babies’ taste in food, the infants preferred the mean puppet to the helper. In other words: Babies prefer someone who is nice to an individual similar to themselves, but they also prefer someone who is mean to a dissimilar individual.
That’s not empathetic.
You also aren’t born toilet trained, but some people take to it and some people wind up president of the USA.
True, and an awful lot of fools react with hostility to facts that offend them. Where is their empathy?
