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Maybe you think that, but I’m sure many people have basic human empathy at the end of the day. Yes statistically many people die on the job in many countries b
by rtpg 4y ago
Maybe you think that, but I’m sure many people have basic human empathy at the end of the day.
Yes statistically many people die on the job in many countries but every one is still a tragedy. You can think that and be running a large organization.
I feel like many conservative thinkers believe that it’s all “fake” and just PR. But human empathy is a real thing.
- isthisthingon99 4y agoLook at your leaders. What percentage do you think operate from sincere va feigned or politically beneficial empathy? Is it a majority? At what level of government do you think it becomes a majority or minority?
- Aeolun 4y agoI honestly think my leaders (in the Netherlands) roughly do what they believe is in the best interest of the people. I think there’s few that truly feign empathy. There’s people that don’t care. I just don’t see them in politics, they’re all business leaders. I guess politics isn’t lucrative enough here.
- isthisthingon99 4y agoThis is my theory. The more local, the more "like you", the more empathy. The more "other", the more fake empathy.
- rtpg 4y agoMoving the goalposts a lot here. I think that when confronted with a meaningless death directly most will feel empathy. I’m sure a lot of politicians will feel like it’s unfair to pin some event on them, and that might be their base reaction. But this is not a mutually exclusive thing! People can be mad about political messaging and still feel something about people dead while building a soccer stadium of all things.
- BurningFrog 4y agoAbout two people die every second. I think it's essential for mental health to find a way to not grieve these strangers!
- rtpg 4y agoI think that people dying for a football stadium, then having their death be compared to dying in their sleep (a luxury for people in a lot of dangerous work) should generate some emotion. What’s the point of anything if we’re going to turn every person into a number? We can’t care about everything all the time, but if we do care about something, it’s probably for valid reasons.
- DeathArrow 4y ago>But human empathy is a real thing. And yet I think most politicians and leaders do not have true empathy, they are just faking it.
- yucky 4y agoDo you think that there is such a thing as too much empathy? At some point it becomes crippling, right?