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I'd argue the exact opposite. It is all too easy to just throw up your hands and say "The world is fucked; there isn't anything to do about it". Empathy is impo
by jhbadger 9y ago
I'd argue the exact opposite. It is all too easy to just throw up your hands and say "The world is fucked; there isn't anything to do about it". Empathy is impossible without the belief that something can be done, which is optimism.
- gt_ 9y agoHN readers are quick to be enthusiastic in celebrating urgent acknowledgement and critical response in the case of server outages and security breaches. Why limit this regard to that? Sure, saying there isn’t anything we can do about it is irresponsible, and so is the lack of nuance of “the world is fucked”. Is this the only alternative you can imagine? >Empathy is impossible without the belief that something can be done, which is optimism. That is not what optimism is. If you can not identify problems, you are multitudes more unlikely to solve them. My critique is as basic as that.