Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah
by nobodywillobsrv on Thursday September 11, 2025 @05:22AM
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No the empathy comment is about it being confused with naive sympathy.
Empathy means fully simulating the other person state of mind and world. Empathy is cognitive spend.
Love thy enemy is a short cut because human brains seem to be unable to think properly in anger. You need to simulate your enemy to understand their positions and seek deals.
Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah
by ndsipa_pomu on Thursday September 11, 2025 @05:38AM
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I don't follow what you're trying to say here.
If you think that encouraging empathy is a bad thing and discouraging empathy is good, then there's little hope for you. The lack of empathy can easily be shown to lead to the evils of Nazism and the desire to be cruel to people who are not "in our group" (e.g. their skin colour is different or were born elsewhere)
This is what amazes me about U.S. politics - there's power-seeking individuals that are clearly trying to hurt other people and are objectively not good people (e.g. convicted rapist, multiple felonies and a long history of not paying bills if they can possibly get away with it).
I mean, it's worrying when public figures can decry "empathy" as being a major problem with society (e.g. "I think empathy is a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage"). To my mind, persuading others to not be empathic is a clear sign of being evil.