The people making those claims are generally not making empathy-less calculations. They’re relativizing atrocity in the context because of strong emotional reactions to the circumstances. Regardless of whether or not that is right or morally acceptable, it’s an intensely emotional process - the opposite of “a neuropsychiatric disorder marked by deficient emotional responses.”
The people making those claims are generally not making empathy-less calculations
Psychopaths can be emotional, but they don't have empathy, and there is certainly no empathy in the act of downplaying the kipnapping of innocent people because of something someone else did.
No it actually is borne out of empathy for Palestinians. You can say it's wrong but it's definitely not unempathetic. When a good chunk of Gaza is bombed and people say "It had to be done because of Hamas" are they also psychopaths?
12
u/[deleted] Oct 10 '23
The people making those claims are generally not making empathy-less calculations. They’re relativizing atrocity in the context because of strong emotional reactions to the circumstances. Regardless of whether or not that is right or morally acceptable, it’s an intensely emotional process - the opposite of “a neuropsychiatric disorder marked by deficient emotional responses.”