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Over time I've gotten completely disenchanted with "empathy" as a slogan. Growing up, I thought it meant striving to see things from multiple sides. In practice
by knzhou 7y ago
Over time I've gotten completely disenchanted with "empathy" as a slogan. Growing up, I thought it meant striving to see things from multiple sides. In practice it is a demand that you see things from only one side -- offering empathy at all to the other side is apparently the most unempathetic thing you can do. Like so much else, it started as a grand principle and ended up as a tribal bludgeon.
I'm with the author here, but the battle he's fighting has long since been lost.
- dbspin 7y agoOnline 'culture' is not the world. It doesn't represent anything like a majority of human culture, and it's been demonstrated time and time again the even those who heavily participate in online communities have radically more subtle and contradictory opinions offline. Lets not give up on humanity just yet, merely because online social media is reactive and polarised.
- mcguire 7y agoLost? Permanently? In that case, maybe we should give up on this whole civilization idea and go back to being pre-literate hunter-gatherers. Oh, wait, that would really suck.