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Do not feel bad for her. Do not even give her a single thought.

• drstewart 3y ago
  It's pretty important to dehumanize and de-empathize with people who offend or break the law. A good justice system and society is built in doling out punishments without reflection or understanding.
  • tinycombinator 3y ago
    I see the valid point you make about how civilization should strive to be above cruel, black/white judgement and ideally encourage empathy towards others in order to be considered just. But I also can't argue against an average citizen not having enough empathy/attention to give (from the limited pool we all have) to one of the biggest and most infamous con artists of our time. It's not like she's in there for just doing drugs. Law should not be one's entire moral compass, but the things she did are undeniably extreme.
  • concordDance 3y ago
    Huh, you may be right. Despite me being pretty sure you're being sarcastic.
• 2-718-281-828 3y ago
  if you focus enough on someones misery you can feel bad for anybody ... even Ted Bundy or Hitler ... but empathy is resource that should be wisely spent and allocated. instead of focusing on people who caused harm to others I can choose to do so for people who didn't. after all compassion isn't working in parallel
• autonomousErwin 3y ago
  She's still a person. I agree with the weight of the sentencing and the amount she received and that she should never be allowed to be a director of a company again, but there's got to still be a small evolutionary part that empathises with anyone looking down the barrel of consequences of this magnitude.