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Can't make people have empathy, but you can make them carry out empathetic acts over and over again through blackmail with this ransomware.
by iepathos 4y ago
Can't make people have empathy, but you can make them carry out empathetic acts over and over again through blackmail with this ransomware.
- oliv__ 4y agoIs it empathetic if you don't mean it?
- iepathos 4y agoYes, an act can be empathetic even if the person doing it doesn't feel empathy. For example, smiling at another person is an empathetic act. Sociopaths do this all the time without feeling actual empathy for people. It makes it easier for them to blend in if they seem to have empathy via empathetic acts however disingenuous they may be.
- pigtailgirl 4y ago-- to nitpick -- empathy is the ability to put yourself in someones position & truly feel what their reality must be like -- compassion is acting on that empathy --
- iepathos 4y agoIt doesn't actually require having empathy to commit empathetic acts which are acts that display empathy. For example, smiling is an empathetic act, but it doesn't require having any actual empathy to do it. Sociopaths can smile and commit other empathetic acts to appear to have empathy without having any true empathy behind it.
- pigtailgirl 4y ago-- not disagreeing with you! - just talking to the linguistics - the distinctions here are interesting :=) -- https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/topic/compassion/definition https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/topic/compassion/definition
- edgyquant 4y agoThat’s just charity not empathy