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Highly empathetic people should be the ones most able to empathize with people who are deeply unpleasant. Else they wouldn't be highly empathetic. > Maybe hig
by baked_ziti 7y ago
Highly empathetic people should be the ones most able to empathize with people who are deeply unpleasant. Else they wouldn't be highly empathetic.
> Maybe highly empathetic people don't like assholes.
Nobody likes assholes...
- Semaphor 7y agoYou can’t be highly empathic, yet not want people who mainly want to create strife to be given a podium?
- itronitron 7y agoEmpathy allows people to better understand the asshole which will cause them to hate the asshole even more.
- baked_ziti 7y agoPerceptiveness is not empathy, or else we wouldn't need another word for it. Hatred and empathy are not on the same ends of the emotional spectrum. The ability to perceive others emotions and simultaneously carry toward them feelings of anger, hatred, or malicious intent is not empathy. It's called something else.
- vict00ms 7y agoIt sounds to me like your idea of empathy is more akin to compassion.
- baked_ziti 7y agoYes, they go together. Sociopaths are low in empathy but excellent at perceiving the emotional state of others.
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- 6gvONxR4sf7o 7y agoMaybe highly empathetic people are the ones who feel for the people on the receiving end of the meanness most, so dislike the assholes most. The point is it could be many things, not just politics, so the external validity is questionable.
- baked_ziti 7y agoThat's not being highly empathetic, that's being exactly like every other person. Also, unironically taking joy in someone else's misfortune is pretty mean.