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!religiouscringe@midwest.social
Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials:
“In my work with the defendants, 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.”
Did he conclude whether those people started without empathy or just lost it due to the things they did?
Christ: Please be kind.
Christians: Empathy is toxic.
Christ: Please love thy neighbour.
Christians: Go back to Mexico!
People like this are eating the same glue that Elon does.
Anyone thinking that empathy is a liability rather than an advantage are fucking stupid.
Empathy is a liability. It's also what makes human connection and love possible.
People who lack empathy are the broken ones.
It's frustrating to read Christians trying to distinguish themselves from one another based on interpretations of a book while also all believing in a magical creature that lives in the clouds who will both condemn someone to an eternity of torture and provide unconditional love and acceptance.
The idea that anything anyone could ever do warrants an infinite amount of suffering is crazy.
Ah “toxic empathy” this is the “I need to protect my mental health— I can’t be bothered with seeing homeless people or caring about genocide. It hurts me to care, so I just won’t.” crowd. And every last one of them is a “magical empath” with more empathy than anyone ever had ever. They’re the mostest empathetic and don’t question it!
Sadly, this is a thing.
(Note: I am not encouraging one to read the link.)
Witnessing to Liberals by Ron Rhodes
God’s primary attribute is said to be love. His holiness, judgment, and wrath are practically ignored. Thus, it is not surprising that liberal Christians hold out the hope of immortality for all people. The idea that any will spend eternity in hell is rejected.
The writing spends a lot of time arguing against the "mischaracterizations of evangelicals", while mischaracterizing "liberal Christians".
Such a horrible out world view.
(I don't care to find out what this detestable person has to say about Atheists.)
I would say that empathy should be a basic requirement for any political office in a democracy. Anyone who lacks empathy is simply unsuitable, because you have to be able to put yourself in the voters' shoes in order to fulfill your mandate as an elected representative of the people.
Empathy would also be highly desirable in business leaders, as the purpose of the economy is to serve society and distribute goods at least somewhat fairly.
In our dark times, however, when politics and business mainly serve to maintain the power of those who are already powerful, it is hardly surprising that someone who is interested in doing just that propagates such idiotic ideas as "toxic empathy."
There's no such thing as toxic empathy. If it's hurting others, it's not empathy.
I mean, being empathetic and using for evil... tale as old as the words' origins.
Empathy, but a lack of conscience allows one to feel for their opponent, assess their weaknesses, and exploit them.
I mean, possessing the capability for understanding harm and doing it anyway is a core characteristic of a "bad person." We don't blame a wild animal for attacking someone, at least not if you have two brain cells to rub together. I worked in Yellowstone. We had bears in civilian areas on a few occasions. I was off the clock, but didn't want to see people hurt, so I helped the park rangers clear the area of tourists, and got the fuck out of the way when they were actually trying to corral the bear (juvenile) and relocate it to a deeper part of the park away from humans.
~~Black Hat Hackers~~ Social engineers, con men, what have you, all revolve around empathetic traits.
Again, people, as an example... A knife is a tool. I carry one every day. Usually, I open boxes, break down boxes, use it as a lever (my "tool" knife EDC is robust and cheap as shit. If it breaks, it breaks, I've gotten a couple decades out of it so far) and more. After 20 years or more of service, it has more than paid for itself, we're looking at like a dollar year here.
Now the knife no one ever sees except my wife (because I disrobe in front of her) is designed for self defense. That one is a weapon. Its only purpose is self defense. It isn't unsheathed unless I'm checking it for maintenance reasons, or I need to defend myself. Thankfully, the later has not happened since I've purchased it. However, in an emergency? Its a sharp blade of good materials. It could be used for other reasons, just at its price point I prefer not to. Awkward grip for a traditional knife usage, but it could be used for an emergency trach if the need arose. Though, that may just be a consideration because of my first aid training.
Both knives serve vastly different purposes for me.
At the end of the day, they're a tool though. I could bash someone in the head with a claw hammer as easily as I built a house - except I know nothing about building a house, lol.
If you use your empathy to being evil, it's not the empathy that is the problem, but you being evil.
If you have empathy, but no conscience, it's not the empathy that is the problem, but the lack of conscience.
I'm old enough to remember in 2009 when Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, mentioning empathy as one of the characteristics he valued in her, and the right melted down
You know who I blame? Jesus. Going round teaching people to care about one another regardless of creed and colour. His toxic empathy has really ruined Christianity.
There is the biblical Christ, then there is alt-right Christ. One may, or may not, have existed as some weird combination of avatar/son/whatever of God. Then there is corruption and propaganda on the other side.
I'm not a Christian, by any stretch of the imagination, but I was raised in the south and my grandma taught Sunday school. I had read the bible cover to cover before most other chapter books, though against my will. Grandma also believed in the corrective powers of The Switch. So, yeah.
The biblical Christ would, if he were still entombed, be rolling in his grave over what the current GoP party is espousing as Christianity.
Of course, this post involves suspension of disbelief, so its all in the hypothetical sense.
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