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> …I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the
by sgarland 2y ago
> …I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.
– Captain G. M. Gilbert, Psychologist at Nuremberg Trials
- zwnow 2y agoThat implies there is evil, who's the judge on good vs evil?
- sgarland 2y agoPretty sure the Nazis leaned towards evil, my dude.
- lolinder 2y agoAnd for OP's benefit because they presumably missed the attribution of the quote, these were the Nuremberg trials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials
- mdp2021 2y agoPeople who have developed judgement. The blind are not judges on visible colours, those with good eyesight are.
- buttercraft 2y agoEasy: evil lacks empathy. All it takes to not be evil is... empathy.