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More people ought to read this: https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethics/ https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
by Aunche 4y ago
More people ought to read this: https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethics/ https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth....
Google is already providing a free service to homeless people. It's not empathy to tell someone else to solve a problem that you care about. That's virtue signaling. If he cares, he should take matters into his own hands.
Is it too much to ask a single person to build a free email service for all homeless people? Perhaps, but the good news is that he doesn't have to. Google already allows you to disable 2FA [1]. He could have started a campaign to disable 2FA on homeless people's phones, but instead he uses this as an opportunity to shame Google to boost his own Twitter follower count.
I think that empathy is highly overrated. I doubt anyone notorious for flashing their big Johnson is particularly empathetic, yet LBJ expanded social services more than any other President. The problem isn't that people have too little empathy these days. It's that people are too easily impressed by broadcasting their intentions rather than actually trying to solve a problem.
[1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1064203 https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1064203
- replygirl 4y agolooks like loder is talking about problems their own friends face, and the post is not directed at anyone in particular. venting is not virtue signaling
- Aunche 4y agoLoder has 130k Twitter followers without any claim to fame besides Twitter, so he knows exactly what he's doing. If he had vented about his friends cutting themselves with a knife that's too sharp, he would have been ridiculed, but in this case he can hide behind the Google hate bandwagon.
- danso 4y agoBut many people consider LBJ to have been an empathetic president? I don't see how it's supposed to be self-evident that, because Johnson liked bragging about his johnson, that his focus on the Great Society must have been driven by hard-headed pragmatism. U.S. presidents have a wide array of problems to solve. LBJ didn't have to pick causes that are commonly associated with empathy for the downtrodden.
- Aunche 4y agoHe didn't just brag about his dick. He went out of the way to show it off to his colleagues. I mean it's possible that his fetish outweighed his empathy, but it's more likely that he simply didn't care about making people feel uncomfortable. He did progressive things, but to me it sounds like he was influenced by philosophical ideals rather than empathy. They based Frank Underwood from House of Cards on an exaggerated version of LBJ.