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> Yet, for some reason I am completely unable to empathize with it. It's simple, if you want to. You just haven't had a comparable experience. Lock yourself i
by spodek 10y ago
> Yet, for some reason I am completely unable to empathize with it.
It's simple, if you want to. You just haven't had a comparable experience.
Lock yourself in a room with no contact with the outside world for a month or two. Remove any niceties a prison would not allow. Probably a room with no windows, mirror, or books.
If you aren't willing to do it, explore what you lose in life. Try doing it for a day or even an hour.
Maybe the difficulty in empathizing comes from the difference from anything you consider a normal life.
- entropyneur 10y agoIt's a reasonable assumption, but I don't think that's all there is to it. Prison is generally not a comfortable place (where I live, lack of windows is standard, for instance, even in multi-person cells). And yet, people who experienced solitary are all seem to be putting an emphasis on the lack of human contact. They are not begging for books or windows. I got an impression from the article that it's at least somewhat common to have access to books and even TV, and it's still just as torturous. They are begging to be allowed to spend time with other humans.