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When a ship is sinking anyone feel the emotion to help anyone, but officers have to know how much people they can save and how much people can die trying to sav
by xte 8y ago
When a ship is sinking anyone feel the emotion to help anyone, but officers have to know how much people they can save and how much people can die trying to save anyone so they need to remain detached.
It's not a lack of empathy, it's the ancient at impossibilia nemo tenetur, powerless people simply do not know or understand or refuse to accept that in emergency situations, powerful people need to know, understand and do their best in any situation.
- scotty79 8y agoYou can't be detached when you have empathy. Empathy is exactly lack of detachment from emotions of others.
- xte 8y agoPerhaps it's not the right term in English (sorry, my English is really poor), for detached I do not mean "not feeling emotions" or "not caring" but feel the emotion remaining rational, cold enough to keep ratio drive decision not emotions. I do not know a specific English term for that... If you "have powers" you can't simply act for yourself you have to take any other under your power/your responsibilities into account and act for the best for all. Since that's normally/often hard/impossible you need to being able to take hard choices, certainly not emotion-less (if so you are really dangerous) but also certainly not driven by your emotions. A balance is needed, like in any "engineering project".