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Nah man, you doubled down on justifying your pathological empathy to your friend, so it's well deserved that he doesn't talk to you anymore. You are all in for

Nah man, you doubled down on justifying your pathological empathy to your friend, so it's well deserved that he doesn't talk to you anymore. You are all in for yet another round of lessons from the global south, as you continue to enable mass migration, and this time it's not just petty crime they're committing. I have zero empathy for the likes of you, and the way you defend your bleeding-heart ways: it isn't just by doing what's supposedly virtuous but also by pontificating. This is a prime example of the submissive, whiny millennial from a developed country (or a tier 2 one like where I live) who thinks they have the moral high ground.

tombert 3y ago
I never disputed that I'm a whiny millennial from a developed country; that's objectively true, and easy to glean in about ten seconds of talking to me. I don't really see how calling me a "whiny millennial" or having "zero empathy for the likes of me" disproves my point; I still don't think that having broad empathy for the plights of others is a weakness and I don't see how pointing to a conspiracy about the global south really disputes that. Also, "pathological empathy"? Really? Because I was going to let someone use my phone (on speaker) to call their mom? Give me a break; if I had "pathological empathy" I wouldn't be a yuppie living in the United States buying items produced by dubious labor in China. I just want to be a decent person, and follow the fairly typical "treat others how you want to be treated". If I were in a position where I needed to call my mom and I didn't have my phone, I would like to live in a world where people help me with that. I don't think it requires "pathological empathy" to want to try and just be a decent person. Yes, in hindsight I probably should have just pointed them to a public phone or a police station or something. I don't think (and never claimed to) have a "moral highground", whatever the hell that means, I just get annoyed when people brag about how unempathetic they'd be in situations they've never been tested on.

tombert 3y ago

I never disputed that I'm a whiny millennial from a developed country; that's objectively true, and easy to glean in about ten seconds of talking to me. I don't really see how calling me a "whiny millennial" or having "zero empathy for the likes of me" disproves my point; I still don't think that having broad empathy for the plights of others is a weakness and I don't see how pointing to a conspiracy about the global south really disputes that. Also, "pathological empathy"? Really? Because I was going to let someone use my phone (on speaker) to call their mom? Give me a break; if I had "pathological empathy" I wouldn't be a yuppie living in the United States buying items produced by dubious labor in China. I just want to be a decent person, and follow the fairly typical "treat others how you want to be treated". If I were in a position where I needed to call my mom and I didn't have my phone, I would like to live in a world where people help me with that. I don't think it requires "pathological empathy" to want to try and just be a decent person. Yes, in hindsight I probably should have just pointed them to a public phone or a police station or something. I don't think (and never claimed to) have a "moral highground", whatever the hell that means, I just get annoyed when people brag about how unempathetic they'd be in situations they've never been tested on.