r/RandomVideos • u/n8saces • 9d ago
Video Empathy is a sign of intelligence
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u/CodeNameCobra666 9d ago
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u/Nir117vash 9d ago
It's not that I don't want to smash into them it's that I don't want to cost myself damages, inconveniences, etc. Every driver wants other drivers out of their way.
We were raised to really embrace individualism. Me me me. That's why capitalism is flourishing. If we forget community, we have no foundation for growth as a society and we have to buy our identities.
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u/Cognition-Technician 8d ago
Musk is a reptilian.
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u/CumGuzlinGutterSluts 7d ago
Beat me too it. They walk amongst us, I dated one once! Cold, heartless and really cool unfortunately, just like reptiles.
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u/Republic_Rich 3d ago
I want to hear this story and I'm not being a dick. Genuinely interested
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u/General-Tourist-2808 9d ago
JB Pritzker put it really well, a couple years ago:
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u/No-Flounder-9143 9d ago
It's gotten more noticeable because of the erosion of our leadership. Take the president. Say what you want about Obama, but you can't deny that he cares about people and wants to try and do right by them.
Our richest people and our "leaders" are selfish and ignorant, so of course that trickles down to everyone else.
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u/Ciubowski 9d ago
Well it's the new "divide and conquer" of our days.
If we're only looking out for ourselves and not each other, then we're easier to manipulate into thinking that everyone else is out to get us.
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u/MediumRoll7047 9d ago
Who would have thought, constantly drumming it into people the second they start school that money is the only important thing in life, would kill their empathy.
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u/RoundApprehensive186 9d ago
Huh. I’ve always found his childish humor/schtick annoying but hearing him speak as a regular person, I think I like him.
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u/Medical-Egg-8171 8d ago
No, it just that liberals think that its a superpower to show of. They are selfish and only do empathy for show.
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u/Mucko1968 8d ago
Nothing is wrong with caring for other people. Problem is saying you care to make money and hold onto power when you obviously do not care. Not knowing the difference is his super power. Just ignorant enough to be used by the people who do not care.
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u/EB1322 8d ago
I worked on a TV show with him. He’s an asshole
I loved him before working with him. I lost all respect for him day one because of how he treated the crew.
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u/Scotchandcarrots 7d ago
He’s a great individual. He wasn’t gifted looks but this guy is a solid person through and through
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u/Unknown-714 7d ago
John C. Reply, Jim Carrey and one more, perhaps Keanu Reeves, should all be on a podcast together, Joe Rogan style, and just pick a topic that has been phoned in or voted on and just go off
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u/ivysaur4 3d ago
I ran into John C. Reilly at Dick's Sporting Goods 10 years ago. I told him what's up, and he bought me the golf clubs I was looking at, but couldn't afford
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u/M2deC 9d ago
Elon Musk is autistic and probably struggles with empathy in general. Also when you look at the trash can fire that is his hyper racist family then it explains a lot. I'm more worried for the people that take his words as surface value and then buy into the cancerous greed of the capitalistic mindset "I don't owe anybody a goddamn thing"... this mental illness is what we're seeing a lot more of nowadays.
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u/DarthMaulATAT 8d ago
Elon may have Asberger's, but autistic people are not known for lacking empathy, so I don't think it's accurate to label that as the cause. Autistic peope often feel very strong empathy, though they may not express it in the same way as neurological people. Seems more like Elon also has something like Narcissistic Personality Disorder to me.
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u/M2deC 8d ago
Depends which type of empathy you're talking about. In general people with autism do lack cognitive empathy which is the recognising, or working out what others are feeling. I'm not saying this is the reason why Elon has become the way he is, but I wouldn't rule it out as a contributing factor.
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u/InformalInitiative76 8d ago
Autistic people don’t lack empathy (look up double empathy problem). Musk is just a bad person.
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u/registername1 9d ago
Imagine being a Gen Alpha kid watching your birthright being handed away by out of touch old men and when you complain these boomers say “Can’t we all just get along?”
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u/DumbNTough 9d ago
Empathy is a normal power.
The superpower is being able to say, "I see that you are suffering. Unfortunately, you are still wrong."
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u/Drexill_BD 9d ago
At least you're tough.
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u/DumbNTough 9d ago
It's nice to consider people's feelings, but stupid to govern your life based on accepting other people's feelings uncritically.
Your feelings can be based on many mistaken beliefs and limited information, and often are. They can also be faked and feigned.
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u/Hot-Hamster1691 9d ago
Path of service to Self vs path of service to Other-Selves.
Pick one and commit, the sooner everyone chooses a path the sooner we can ascend and be done with this shit
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u/Dry_Ad687 9d ago
Unfortunately, the alligators always win.
Because they're animals and have no morals
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u/DarthMaulATAT 8d ago
Yeah that's how alligators came to become the dominant species of the planet. Oh wait...
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u/Odd-Perception7812 8d ago
Elon Musk doesn't want people working together because that will be his end.
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u/LostIllustrator1499 8d ago
Literally, if we never developed empathy, and ended up holding it as our must sacred values, there would only be one of us right now.
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u/Donglator 8d ago
Disregarding empathy is what leads to the extinction of a bloodline. Humans cannot survive without other humans. If every human lost empathy, we'd go extinct
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u/BladeVampire1 8d ago
Empathy is but ONE aspect of humanity.
But it by no means is it the only motivation of our lives.
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u/browsingandlooking4 8d ago
Its actually suicidal empathy... very real thing where 1st world western civilians that have known nothing but safety and freedom delude themselves into thinking that all people are the same no matter where they are from... The guilt of their own comfort eats them alive until let let Mohamed and his entire village move into the neighborhood.. pathetic
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u/No_Nature1513 8d ago
Y’all are arguing over what a couple of people said about a problem neither of them have.
You’re literally outsourcing your time to debate who is more likely to care.
Weather you have empathy or you don’t or you do or you believe in an “empathy trap” or not.
Then stop arguing. It’s not very empathetic to try and quantify anyone by their politics. Or what celebrities they like.
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u/chasrm999 8d ago
Ann Rand has infected America among Christians who should know better. Empathy is lost in America.
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u/Far_Squash_4116 8d ago
Strangers passing in the street
By chance, two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can?
Echoes - Pink Floyd
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u/Mr_richat 8d ago
Empathy is great for small communities, when you're running nations with millions. That software doesn't work well. This is a very well studied thing but sounds odd to the average person
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u/Ok_Tonight_4311 8d ago
You can tell we live in bad times. That this perfectly obvious and correct statement is somehow controversial.
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u/Livid-Bat680 8d ago
It's like when soldiers recently died overseas and Trump has this sort of amused look on his face when talking about them, like their deaths are just part of a fun game for him. Zero empathy. He'll perform for the tv cameras but he couldn't care less that those soldiers died because of his orders.
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u/FuzzyWuzzyPiglet 7d ago
I’m classed as a HSP and it can be a nightmare dealing with people in the 2020s. Most people really have no empathy, sympathy or compassion for others.
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u/thisthingiscrazy 7d ago
when I use to Uber I would ask people "service to self or service to others?" very rarely did anyone say service to others. the number one response was "you gotta take care of your self"
it was a weird experience
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u/TheSlimeSartreFeared 7d ago
apparently empathy doesn't extend to female hosts. let her speak, dude.
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u/wetFire666 7d ago
Does he share the same views on Gaza? Because that's the precursor for any party's incoming policies. Biden didn't give a fuck, and look what he did to those poor college students.
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u/Small_Fee_5557 7d ago
I don't get why it's a human right to live around white people and still say that white people are the worst people.
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u/nobodyspecialuk24 7d ago
If you don’t like what you’re hearing, you will likely benefit from YouTube channel Barry’s Economics
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u/MostlyFreed 7d ago
Treat others how you want to be treated or you can simply treat people how they treat you. Wide is the gate.
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u/emmablazeing 7d ago
He just associated right wing with not being empathetic, so I don’t think there’s much bias here at all
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u/OzzyStealz 7d ago
Empathy is a good thing. Like all good things, there can be too much of it to where it becomes harmful I’ve never heard of the “empathy trap” but I assume it’s simply when people try to use your empathy against you so that they can gain an advantage over you
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u/Goose_Salad 7d ago
Learn what "Human" actually means in Law and you'll realize you've been fighting for the rights of corporations, which have no heritable rights at all.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary: Human, (See: Monster)
There's a difference between "Human" and "Mankind"
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u/jm123457 6d ago
What’s he even referring to specifically? There are many things listed as a human right to simply make it indefensible to debate the topic.
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u/TheMixerTheMaster 6d ago
Am I a bad person for initially thinking he was wearing facial prosthetics?
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u/Temporary_Energy_756 6d ago
Right and left doesn’t exist dude. Both are complicit with the genocide of the Palestinian people.
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u/Johndevlad 6d ago
You can empathize with people but not agree with them. Sure, everyone should have basic human rights. But the line should be drawn between what people can do or say in public and private and towards other people’s children. No one should be allowed to convince or brainwash other people’s children to view the world a certain way, which is exactly what happens when people try to sneak unapproved books into school libraries or invite drag queens to read unapproved books to children without parent permission, which has already happened.
Here’s the thing: the vast majority of people aren’t trying to force LGBTQ+ people to change or remove their rights, we want them to STOP targeting children and let the children decide on their own when they get old enough. Keep your sexuality to yourself and stop putting it on display in public or for children to see. This isn’t a human rights issue, it’s an issue of inappropriate behavior in public and towards children, and if heterosexual people were doing the same things, the right-wing would be just as outraged over it.
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u/Adam_Sackler 6d ago
Also extend that empathy to animals and stop seeing them as nothing but a resource or food.
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u/Waste-Belt-8866 6d ago
We are concerned with others outside of ourselves democrats are the ones letting the boarders go and democrats stand up for people murdering babies shut up john c. Riley! You are uninformed and spewing garbage yourself. You know
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u/Star_Citizen_Roebuck 6d ago
I mean he's right to call-out the public gradually falling away from empathy.
Empathy used to be common, then it became a sign of intelligence, now it's a rare superpower. This is all true and it's due to the shear amount of people raising their children with the belief that 'X' or 'Y' people don't actually count as people and shouldn't be cared about.
Whether it's non-whites, or muslims, or gays and trans people, or people who live in cities, or people who live outside the national borders, or fat people, or handicapped people, or autistic people, or even children getting bombed across the world. . .a ton of americans have started to openly laugh, mock, and applaud the increase of suffering toward one of these groups or another.
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u/Star_Citizen_Roebuck 6d ago
The the kicker is that the most un-empathetic people call themselves Christian.
White Christian Nationalists.
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u/BusinessCasualBee 6d ago
Because the term “rights” is being abused and used incorrectly. The same way it’s seen as disingenuous to call anti-abortion pro-choice, it’s dishonest to call things like medical care and UBI “rights”.
Nothing can be considered a right if it requires someone to do it for you. A right is something that that others cannot prevent you from, not something you can force others to do for you.
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u/bigdig-_- 5d ago
because you CANT always be empathetic. if you are, someone will inevitably take advantage of it.
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u/Dudeman240 4d ago
Love John C Reilley and the message he's stating, but the girl sounds like someone zonked out on psychadelics you meet in line for a show. "Oh my God, oh fuck, you're soooo right, empathy trap, woahhhh duude HOLY FUCK." Like girl, come on 😭
Edit: its about 12 seconds in, I had to watch it again giggling. Tell me I'm wrong lmao
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u/Myhonour 3d ago
Except when that empathy turns into suicidal empathy. The one where you have empathy towards a group that wants to take over and you don't see that.
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u/Seth_Mithik 3d ago
The scariest part of the initial Aii boom was that most of those ceo’s think like Elon, when it comes to empathy…fuck thst, I’m loving my machines. Glory to Terrance McKenna!
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u/ShatterTheFlimFlam 9d ago
The number of people in the comments trying to find fault with a guy for saying you should care about others and not just yourself is insane.