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> There's a larger % of the population that you might expect that have no capability for empathy, let alone anything higher And another big % that purposefully
by dukeyukey 2y ago
> There's a larger % of the population that you might expect that have no capability for empathy, let alone anything higher
And another big % that purposefully surpress empathetic instincts because of other beliefs.
- MrMcCall 2y agoWillful ignorance and oppression of others have many causes, none of them anything less than an evil perversion of the life of compassion we should each be choosing to manifest. Such evil is always worse under the guise of religion, because religion is ONLY supposed to lead us to greater compassion for all our neighbors, especially those who are on different paths. We are to light the way forward for others by our own selfless, loving, generous, and kind compassion for others. A particularly tricky bit is that the Paradox of Tolerance requires us to "love" the oppressed differently than their oppressors, which may require what Holmes called "vigorous action" in the defense of the innocent. And it doesn't matter what the oppressor calls themself, because the beliefs and claims of the destructively self-deluded hypocrites carries no weight in the universe's court of truth, which is all there is.