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Why does it offer bleak hope? I really don’t get this parallel, where not feeling for someone equals wanting them to be in pain. Not caring doesn’t make you ev
by eksemplar 8y ago
Why does it offer bleak hope? I really don’t get this parallel, where not feeling for someone equals wanting them to be in pain.
Not caring doesn’t make you evil, it makes you indifferent. I think feeling less is an advantage if you do want to hurt others, but there is really no correlation between the two. You don’t automatically start wanting to hurt people, just because you don’t feel empathy.
- ggm 8y agoWhy does it offer bleak hope? I really don’t get this parallel, where not feeling for someone equals wanting them to be in pain. Thats not what I meant. its bleak, because its emotionless. its unempathetic engagement. For me, its stepped over uncanny valley, into a dialogue with somebody who has no emotional engagement with you, only rational response. For some things, thats what you want. Personally, I don't think a relationship we normally couch as an emotional one, ie friend, or best-friend, or life partner, is one which is complete if its devoid of emotion. Preferably reasonably symmetrically, but there is room for variance. One sided? Thats pretty bleak, on the giving side: nothing comes back.