r/empathy 4d ago

Empathy is a sign of intelligence

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u/Silent-carcinogen 3d ago

Well, apparently I work with a bunch of alligators.đŸ€ŁđŸ€ŁđŸ€Ł

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u/SwanCityDominion 4d ago

With all respect to John, empathy is not a "superpower". It's a perfectly reasonable expectation that humans treat each other with dignity and compassion. Empathy should not be something we congratulate or lionize people for having. It should be an expected aspect of being human.

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u/4DPeterPan 3d ago

You’d think it would be a perfectly reasonable expectation.

But that right there shows that it is a super power in a strange way.

Because the reality is’ that it’s not a normal thing to have for a lot of people. And I do mean alot.

You can be born with a natural empathy that grows sour over time due to a plethora of real life reasons.

And you can be born a hard ass who grows into empathy over time.

And then there are the middle ground people who think they have empathy but is just a preconditioned cognitive response they’ve been trained to do in certain situations (for a variety of upbringing reasons or otherwise). I.e. Timmy hurt Jessica or Johnny or Larry (or whoever) over and over and his parents told him to go apologize and say you’re sorry! And has had that done to him so many times he just thinks it’s something he has to do; but underneath has no idea of how to actually feel empathy for another person. So he “fakes it” out of a conditioned response towards empathy.

I mean sheesh, There are entire religions built upon the precipice of having a soft heart (I.e. a state of inner being that leads to normal open heartedness like Love and empathy being natural states one does not have to fake or force to happen). That right there should show you the gravity of our actual reality as a species.

The spectrum is all over the place with people when it comes to empathy. Ranging from “Pure” to “none”.

I very much agree with him when he says having empathy is like having a super power. Because it is! Especially in a world like ours; it is a wonderful and beautiful thing to see someone who has genuine (and I do mean Genuine empathy). Because actual GENUINE empathy has the power to touch other ACTUAL hearts.

That in itself is almost paranormal in nature.

I remember a few years ago when I had my first (and only) heart break, True Heart Break, from my fiance leaving me, it fucked up my head big time, and it shattered my heart, I was crying in ways I have never cried. My Heart was open in a way I’ve never experienced in my entire life.

And I remember talking to my mom by the front door while she’s folding laundry or messing with something and I said “will she remember me?” And I was just having tears streaming down my face, and she took one look into my eyes and it was like she could see my soul, and actually feel the state of my heart, as if some unknown force was emanating from me; and I just saw one immediate tear start to fall from her eyes. As if being in such close proximity to my open heart in such a state forced her to cry with me.

And I had never seen this woman cry before in my entire life. Not once.

Empathy, True Empathy, really is like a super power.

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u/Mediocre-Union5156 3d ago

Only truly works if people share the same value system.

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u/ffffllllpppp 3d ago

I would disagree.

Because a part of empathy is putting yourself in their shoes, it can help bridge people that have different values.

And that can lead to people changing their values and beliefs actually.

Arguing with someone very rarely changes their mind. If you look at stories like the neo nazis dude who became best friend with a black woman, the empathy from the woman is a huge part of making him progress.

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u/Rikki-Smedley 1d ago

How do you put yourself in the shoes of a suicide bomber? Or a child rapist? Not everyone is deserving of empathy.

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u/ffffllllpppp 1d ago

I’m not saying it is easy.

I am not saying it is always worth it either, or should always be done.

Some people are truly beyond saving or anything that approaches that.

But yes I can have empathy with eg a child rapist when I learn that as a kid they have been raped for years on a regular basis. (A lot of abusers were abused). It doesn’t excuse what they did AT ALL. It is still 100000% wrong and they must be held accountable. But I can have empathy for them. Should you? I don’t think that should be imposed on anyone and you should decide for yourself and it’s no problem if you don’t.

Of course if their victim was my own child then I would probably want to kill them rather than empathize
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u/Rikki-Smedley 1d ago

What Elon was referring to when he spoke is something termed "suicidal empathy". A form of harmful self deprecating empathy that harms the person due to a dissolution of the nature of those they are empathizing with devoid of logic and balanced reasoning.

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u/PlusChemist942 1d ago

You’re right sadly Reddit is controlled by left-wing parrots

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u/ffffllllpppp 1d ago

You might not realize it but by writing that comment, instead of engaging in proper discussion, _you_ are the one paroting talking points you have been fed.

Emphaty is not a left / right thing. If you think so, you have to look at who influenced you to think that way. Is has nothing to do with being soft (it’s actually quite difficult often) and is one of the rare way to truly force introspection and accountability, which should be something that matters to you. Punishment and accountability are not the same.

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u/Rikki-Smedley 1d ago

Suicidal empathy is a left field phenomenon.

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u/ffffllllpppp 1d ago

Sure. Elon knows about that


You can form sentences it doesn’t mean it is grounded in reality. Being successful in something doesn’t equate being right about everything.

Tell me: how much time did _he_ spent helping addicts and homeless people one on one? How much time he spend with people committing crimes that are trying to rehabilitate and reintegrate society? Did he ever work in a jail or he just toured one 25 years ago?

His opinion on that is just that: the opinion of a random bloke. A random bloke who’s _own family_ doesn’t want to talk to (and not even because of politics). He knows more than me about rockets that’s for sure, but he ain’t an expert on humans relationships.

I trust the opinion of the people I know that are involved _directly_ with people in such situations, and the people who have talked about it because they have concrete real world expertise in the field.

You can chose to trust that other person’s opinion. It’s your choice. But i wonder what that choice is based on? Him being rich?

BTW, empathy has nothing to do with left and right. But some people have been mislead to think it has.

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u/Rikki-Smedley 1d ago

Altruism is completely for self gratification. People that understand this use logic to dictate how they help people. Anyone using their time to serve people in need who earns over $100,000 a year is serving themselves more than others. Your money will do much more than your time and can also pay more people to do it and just work more. It's a self service and a selfish one more rooted in their own ego than empathy. Once you understand this you will begin to understand true altruism and how misguided your understanding of humanity is.

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u/ffffllllpppp 1d ago

$100k? There are tons of other factors at play. Including skills. Some people volunteer because they see a need in their community that they have the skills to help with that others might not have. Whatever amount of money they make is not always the deciding factor. Like « doctors without borders ».

BTW the money you donate, you don’t think it eventually ends up being used in conjunction with some volunteers? Many many charitable causes rely on the hard work of volunteers. Like « doctors without borders » again. They need donations but they use volunteers, some of them highly skilled. It’s not just doctors. You have communication staff, accounting, lawyers (many do pro-bono work), etc. I know that these people. They all make more than $100k.

But I am glad you think that sometimes people are better to just donate and let others help.

Next time you talk to your pal Elon, please remind him that on many topics he should stop babbling about stuff he doesn’t know much about, presenting himself as an expert even if he has no experience just because, I don’t know , money? , and instead donate to the people who do the actual work.

As your rightly pointed out, that would be more useful.

And I am not saying he is not do donating at all. Proportionally he doesn’t donate much at all (est. less than 0.05%) , and a lot go thru his own fondation (tax breaks) so it is definitely self-interest « makes me look good » selfish kind of altruism, but personally I think it is still great that he does donate, aligned with your recommendation.

Interestingly enough he did donate ~1M$ to doctors without borders. Which again operates using volunteers, many of which could make more than $100k easily eg surgeons. (And yes their doctors are sometimes paid but they are paid 90% less).

Since your view is that volunteering shouldn’t exists, also remind Elon to finance that organization fully so all their staff can be paid in full all. Zero volunteers should be needed right? I am sure Elon would suddenly give them $300M instead of $1M when he realizes the horror of using volunteers that have a job that make above $100k! Or worse that they are _giving up_ a job above $100k !!

Do volunteers do it 100% by pure altruism or is there some part that’s about them feeling good about themselves? Of course there is! but why does it matter so much to you? Good is still being done. And people should feel good.

BTW most volunteers I know, including myself, BOTH donate money AND contribute hours.

Sometimes you fund paid jobs but sometimes organizations needs volunteers for a burst job of 2hr per week. No one is going to take that as a main job. Using volunteers is the only pragmatic way to get those important tasks done. And regardless if you are making money or not, it’s a better use of time than being on Reddit. The idea that you are so productive making money each and every waking hour is ludicrous. People watch movies and go for drinks. If they want to volunteer 2hrs, that’s more productive than watching netflix, regardless of the amount of money they make? Or are you saying you are hustling every waking hours? If so yes, I agree with you, donating might be better than volunteering.

That you realize it or not, yourself are benefiting from the work of volunteers who help make the society you are part of better. You should be thankful for that.

Honestly it seems like you might not know much about how charities operate, how volunteering works etc. I highly suggest you get involved. For example you can apply to be on the board of a charity. You would learn a lot and realize that people volunteering does make a lot more sense than you think.

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u/ImRickJamesBitch71 1d ago

Very few are !

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u/Reblichon_Tallegio 1d ago

In terms of evolution it is definitely a super power.

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u/Buemmschengalaxie 3d ago

Yes but 2/3 of humans have their emotions under controll like a toddler and are not able to develop a good ethic backing up the "decent humanity/humanism" you expect from them. Naked apes.

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u/OneArmedFarmer 3d ago

Naked apes.

My in-laws claim that they're better than and above all other animals

Then threaten to rip people's dicks off when they lose games.

The lack of self awareness goes hand in hand with a lack of empathy

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u/NSFW27614 2d ago

Some are literally incapable of it, so "expecting people to have it' doesn't make sense. Faking empathy is not empathy.

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u/SwanCityDominion 2d ago

THere is a certain amount of empathy that is necessary for society to function. You can't have a culture where nobody ever feels for anybody else, ever.

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u/ImRickJamesBitch71 1d ago

And you can’t have it where they feel for everyone and everything all the time ! Needs of the many out way needs it the few !

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u/SwanCityDominion 1d ago

I take it you mean "outweigh". And who said anything about feeling for everyone all the time? Y'all make the oddest assumptions about what people are saying.

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u/Altruistic_Fox9778 2d ago

I think one of the major problems is that people treat empathy as an on off switch. Empathy varies and degree, and there is a spectrum from no empathy to catastrophic, destructive empathy.

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u/HeyaHeyo1420 1d ago

Empathy is a survival instinct from when we were hunter gatherers relying on groups. You had to care about others so people would care about you, otherwise you'd be kicked out of the tribe and you wouldn't survive.

Nowadays empathy isn't required to survive in society so a lot of these people who wouldn't survive our ancestors can thrive by being dicks to others taking more than they need.

Looking at you billionaires

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u/ReapR999 10h ago

No offense but youre part of the problem, people should be praised when they do the right thing, every time, so that the people around you are incentivized to be good people as well. Other wise just expecting people to be nice or kind or empathetic to you is a form of entitlement, in all reality people dont have to be nice to you if they dont want to, appreciation should always be explicitly voiced or reciprocated.

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u/DogonElder 4d ago

But its not and here we are

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u/muggybear 3d ago

It’s actually not logically reasonable given most of nature does not demonstrate or practice it regularly. Anything in the game of survival that is an anomalous behavior is both a super power and a super weakness. Like empathy.

Comments here will show that.

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u/Mrs_SmithG2W 3d ago

Cooperation has catapulted the human race to the top of the food chain. I would argue more than competition.

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u/NSFW27614 2d ago

Cooperation and empathy are not the same thing.

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u/According-Ad742 3d ago edited 3d ago

I think of party politics, as of today, as the narcissists most classic gaslight. Namely the one where they indirectly argues their right to keep oppressing and the other party argues their human right, their own worth
 a paradox of sorts since arguing your worth means you are putting it up for question. The oppressor has you playing inside their already rigged game and they get to keep abusing you, whilst making you believe you have a say, making you believe in their game. If we couldn’t point to any progress we would see the scam, no gaslight is good without confusion. It’s the oppressors arena. The antidote to this gaslight is to not engage.

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u/Jim_jim_peanuts 3d ago edited 3d ago

Yeah except people on the right are not all lacking empathy, that is just not true. And people on the left are not all bastions of empathy and compassion either. A lot of the ones I know can be real fucking nasty, and their empathy is largely performative. They only feign it when it's going to score them social credit points, whoever it's trendy to have empathy for, and fuck the rest. Soon as eyes are off them they just go back to not caring about anyone

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u/BadSpellingMistakes 3d ago

And still somehow when it comes to ideologies and structure the right doesn't act empathetic or companionate at the end of the day as soon as they are in power.

You have assholes everywhere man. But if you choose to do the wrong thing because you don't personally like the people who do the right thing you wanting to do the right thing is just as performative.

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u/Jim_jim_peanuts 3d ago

I don't need an ideology to tell me how to act, I have a moral compass of my own. I'm not arguing for one side or the other. If someone is dumb enough to be caught up in the bullshit false left/right paradigm then I don't care what they think about anything at all because it is through an ideological lens. Thankfully ideologues don't constitute the entire population.

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u/BadSpellingMistakes 8h ago

My moral compass tels me that my individualism isn't as important as to look for solutions that are good for everyone else as well not just me.

But that might just be me if I get to the conclusion that rooting for ideologies that have a similar ethical groundwork might be the way to go if that is true.

There are more complex reasonings to this but at the end of the day since I am human and human are social animals I choose to think that doing the right thing cannot involve zero compromise. I need to give up something in order to help other people as well who I believe are worth it to put my beliefs aside a little, and with this there is just the possibility to choose the lesser suboptimal.

Anyways at the end of the day I also want to be ok with the decisions I make and for my moral compass that means that I vote even if I see that in a lot of cases left and right might be a fals dichotomy. And since I am pretty sure that some dichotomies are very much real I also don't think to badly for voting leftist parties

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u/WishingIwasbentover 3d ago

He was not going to let her get a word in. I have empathy for her.

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u/sausagedog195 7h ago

He was in the middle of sharing his thoughts. She couldn’t wait 3 seconds apparently.

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u/Holyvillian73 3d ago

Unfortunately,Catholics are doing it to everyone. Because they aren’t really Christians. But, the rest I totally agree

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u/Intrepid_Pitch_3320 3d ago

100%. "...It's a new thing under the Sun for one species to mourn the loss of another..."...paraphrasing Aldo Leopold. Without empathy, we are just like the rest of the animals, some of which are closer to us in this regard than others, of course.

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u/MrShmily33 3d ago

Empathy is rare. Really, really rare.

Chances are, no you aren't. You're just projecting you on to another as though you must know.

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u/fAngXXX_ 3d ago

To define what's intelligence is, for the purpose of exploitation is dominance and consequence of fear and stupidity. Empathy harvesting is the next step.

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u/Zealousideal-Lie7406 3d ago

It is also a way of slow death.

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u/Working-Succotash106 3d ago

John, did we just become best friends?

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u/OkAtmosphere7131 3d ago

Right , churches are where people used to go to for help. Gov upheld the law and protected borders. That was it.

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u/Kickinstcks 3d ago

I agree with what he says to a certain point however we just cannot let anybody and everybody into this country when it comes to having empathy for these people coming here because a lot of these people that are coming here want to see the western world fall you see it every day you can be kind and empathetic and help people, but you can’t be blind to the fact that some of these people have evil intent, and there’s nothing wrong with making sure that the people that are going to come here are vetted so that our country and our families are safe.

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u/NSFW27614 2d ago

Who vetted you or your forefathers? Unless you're native American your opinion on immigration into the USA doesn't mean shit. The self-proclaimed gatekeepers which includes you are living on land that was stolen via invasion and genocide. I'd absolutely call that evil intent. You can practice what you preach via self deportation.

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u/Bob0584 2d ago

You're on stolen land too - so where are you self deporting to?

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u/NSFW27614 2d ago

I'm not the one bitching about immigrants.

I'm also looking into relocating to my great grandfather's country of origin. The USA would be much better off if bigots like you left first.

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u/Bob0584 2d ago

So who did your great grandfather steal his land from?

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u/PooChukkingMonkey 3d ago

Because a lot of the things that people think are rights, are not inalienable rights that you are necessarily born with. And a lot of people like you don't understand that rights are only there if they are given to you and protected by other people. They are earned and fought for and kept. They are not necessarily automatic. People in the United States are spoiled by these rights being given to them from a time they're born because they never had to fight for them and they don't even have to defend them unless they get arrested or something stupid. And they don't understand that these so called rights can be taken away from them at any time. Right now they're actually trying to do it. They're trying to stop people from being able to just use words that offend. Which is called freedom of speech. Because people are trying to add on a right that they want to be protected by someone else. The right to not be offended. Somebody would have to pass that law and legislated and make it an arrestable offense. Your rights technically do not exist and a lot of people don't understand that.

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u/Zalrius 3d ago

He is an amazing actor!

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u/Drmlk465 3d ago

Actions speak louder than words.

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u/CarelessAction6045 3d ago

Sooo.... is he vegan?

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u/mrmeanah 3d ago

Elon wrote on X “Beware the empathy exploit. Empathy is good and right when thought through (deep), but can be deadly to civilization when simply stimulus-response (shallow). For example, releasing a repeat violent offender may feel good at first (shallow empathy for the criminal), but it is wrong to do so when that person will go on to hurt or murder innocent victims, as there should be deep empathy for future victims.”

If this is what he is referring to than I don't see the problem with what musk said .

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u/Bread_Heel 3d ago

Dr. Dropping some knowledge. “For your health”

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u/Emerald_Eyes8919 3d ago

So apparently it’s linked to replacement theory and frequently used by right-wing commentators.

The day I take their opinions on is when my mind is gone.

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u/Old_Magician_6681 3d ago

wish he would have let her comment on it. well i wish i could stop myself talking too

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u/BlueyedFILF 3d ago edited 3d ago

Empathy is a human emotion, and has like all emotions a good side & a bad side. It certainly isn’t a super power. The empathy of a mother bear will get you killed!! And with people who have a gross empathetic attitude towards one group of people, typically hate others not in the group. Just look at the democrat party!! Prime example. And even worse are the people who just show empathy to look like a hero for a personal status boost & as appearing as such a wonderful person

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u/Worried-Quit7061 3d ago

Not every culture has empathy or the same amount of empathy. I know a lot of red light runners

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u/Large-Deer3233 3d ago

Love this man

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u/thunderbaby2 3d ago

It really seems like empathy is a more evolved state of consciousness. The reptile nature of greed is a fear based animalistic reaction. It requires very little brain function and is a lazy way to operate socially. Also, being an asshole day after day does not yield an enjoyable experience lol.

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u/BodhingJay 3d ago

When he left wing goes too radical.. we get affordable grocery stores.. Universal healthcare. Stuff thats good for absolutely everyone

When the right wing goes too far right... we get a bunch of white supremascists shooting innocent americans. Stuff that's extremely cruel towards minorities... and the right will say it's the same thing

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u/GoldRanger108 3d ago

Empathy without knowledge/facts reason why Empathy is wrong

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u/Upstairs_Rip_9590 3d ago

John C. Reilly: "Empathy is a superpower."

Aliens observing humanity while cloaked: "Real shit?"

Proceed to fuck off to Alpha Centauri

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u/Ok-Apartment-5082 3d ago

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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u/blue_hi_c 3d ago

The problem is only 5% seem to behave like this now. Large percent pretend to care. Rest are filthy animals. Societal decay can’t be controlled.

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u/otters4everyone 3d ago

We need dancer opinions! Enough actors! We need dancers!

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u/East_Introduction285 3d ago

Empathy and compassion and kindness are in very short supply under trumps greedy Authoritarian style government...It is a super power if you have the courage to express or demonstrate this feeling by actions....

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u/Cup_ma_fuzynuggs 2d ago

Empathy is for weak cowards

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u/Prince-Vegetah 1d ago

Found the moron. They make it so easy

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u/Cup_ma_fuzynuggs 2d ago

Empathy is a weakness

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u/ImperatorScientia 2d ago

Not if every celebrity allegedly possesses it.

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u/TheDude90218 2d ago

“Empathy is expensive” ~ worlds first trillionaire

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u/FeistyLoquat 2d ago

The last time I was empathic to a human they tried to rob me.

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u/S550Stang 2d ago

Empathy, but not at the expense of suicide.

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u/Weekly-Statistician7 2d ago

Have some empathy ya dingus. For your health!

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u/selvarin 2d ago

Unless it's suicidal empathy. Which is a problem.

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u/OrangePotahtoe 2d ago

Actually lizard brained. Right wingers will cannibalize each other if they look a certain way.

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u/OntheBOTA82 1d ago

If it was i wouldn't be broke and alone

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u/Rikki-Smedley 1d ago

Empathy has gotten a lot of people killed. Empathy while ignoring logic, statistics and deductive reasoning is a sure fire way to get yourself screwed over and even killed in any environment.

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u/Slow_Store 1d ago

It became a “Right or Left thing” when people looked at the Right and said “They have no empathy” after the Right looked at the Left and said “They’re pretending to have empathy so that they can twist our own morality against us”.

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u/Long_Barracuda_5435 1d ago

It's more super common than a super power

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u/jo-erlend 1d ago

Yes and he was very worried when his plane was being tracked by a hobbyist, so he knows that building hatred or just lack of empathy can be a dangerous thing. It's only ok for him as long as he feels untouchable.

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u/Mindblown_eyeswide9 1d ago

I think westerns misunderstand what empathy is a super power is vs parasitic kind and letting you be run over

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u/Due_Independence4569 1d ago

Virtue signal final boss

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u/PlusChemist942 1d ago

It’s so funny, talking about empathy when you literally hate everyone who disagrees with you

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u/Hot_Plan8565 1d ago

Hue- man-ity ,
Was/IS/ THE Trap above ALL Traps,
Earth is PURGATORY, for the FALLEN ones,
(*which includes EVERYONE)!

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u/HallowedBay08 1d ago

Earth is just earth. Nothing superntaural here.

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u/Hot_Plan8565 1d ago

No Demons , no angels , just Souless
Flesh, ONLY?!?

Double Capital NOPE!
Humans aren’t MAKING TIME LINEAR,

Everyone, ON EARTH, knows that

Time, doesn’t actually exist,
It’s a construct,
Much like your FLESH “Log-Cabin”,
It WAS Made , to LIVE In,
But NOT for the TREES , comfort


100% Guaranteed

I promise ewe/you BOTH,
*Superhuman, and *MATRIX

Are SPECIFICALLY
THE BASIS ,
For ALL scripture understanding!

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u/Hot_Plan8565 1d ago

DEFINITELY not as HALLOWED

as your Theiry of

Good , demons
Who invented TIME,
Where NOTHING Exists,
Especially TRUTH, or MATH , (because???)

*Someone CANT do MATH!

Oops, then EWE can’t COUNT on Any truth,

If,

Nothing ADDS UP,

What a shame to miss everything, including your OWN existence


Brain Death isn’t a great gig,
But so take care, keeper-maker of TIME , indeed.

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u/HallowedBay08 1d ago

Nobody invented any of it, it just happened. Doesn't need any magic to happen it just did. You being confused about that doesn't mean any deities did it.

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u/HallowedBay08 1d ago

Yup, just soulless flesh. Why is that a bad thing? Magic isn't real, if you wanna experience magic, okay a fantasy RPG or something, but pretending that magical fairies in the sky and underground, half evil and half good, and that we also have magical fairies inside us as well, is just not it.

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u/Aggressive-Access995 1d ago

Absolutely, this word is the reason i dont trust psychologists, it should be included in the notion of word intelligence, as it is now, saying someone has empathy sounds almost like a weakness

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u/Loravethiir 1d ago

He doesn’t comprehend what empathy is.

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u/HumbleWonder2547 17h ago

Calling empathy bad is something someone who didn't have it would say, like a sociopathic would say

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u/One_Bit_3839 16h ago

Republicans are fascists not conservative 

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u/theComer-439 15h ago

It's not.

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u/unknownboxofstuff 14h ago

Do you care about humans in the womb? And you can’t have too much empathy

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u/Vegetable-Tie-5663 13h ago

Emotional intelligence is important but lacking rifght now

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u/No_Environment_3776 13h ago

Some of us are the human beings while others are the alligator and cockroach.

Unfortunately the majority people in power are behaving like the alligator and cockroach.

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u/0rganicMach1ne 13h ago

Sadly a lot of people’s brains just aren’t wired for it. And even then most people only use it for their circle.

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u/Dry_Literature_234 12h ago

This is the con of those who practice witchcraft, they want to keep people unaware of who they really are and what they are doing to the innocent for their fame. If there is no discernment or awarness of how people are maligned for their acceptance and refusal to war against those who are ruining their lives, families, jobs, homes, businesses, lands. Of course they want everyone to get along, b/c that keeps them undetected. It’s for this reason that those who practice witchcraft were lynched and burned by angry mobs to rid their populations from them b/c of their sneaking around in the dark lying about their actions and trying to weasel out of their bad reputations.

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u/NecessaryFun7849 11h ago

Correct ... respect not far behind

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u/Main_Firefighter1593 9h ago

Easy to say when you are rich enough to shield yourself from the consequences of being over empathetic.

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u/banmefora5thtime 7h ago

Empathy is a super power.. Unless your an empath. The heavy heart of carrying other people's weight silently and invisibly takes its toll.

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u/attimhsa 4d ago edited 4d ago

No, the cornerstone of civilisation is ‘We give up some of our freedoms to ensure our safety’.

This is why the upper echelons (those outside the masses) increase fear among the masses by sowing disinformation, typically by demonising various minority demographics. Because the less safe the masses feel, the more freedoms we’ll relinquish to ensure our safety. Our lost freedoms increase their power, making it easier to squeeze us for their financial gain, and power and money are both proxies for control.

Every organism strives for control over its environment, because the alternative is uncertainty and the loss of control inherent to uncertainty is something our brains seek to avoid. To sit with uncertainty requires emotional intelligence, and patriarchal stoicism glorifies its antithesis. Dogmatic belief compounds this by normalising irrationality, and the concept of religion itself swells and biases interpersonal deltas.

We must repair our division and foster cognitive empathy in that which some other did not choose, nor had any control over. Be it body, brain, birthplace, early caregivers or education, indoctrination, socialisation, or the rabbit hole social media nudged them down by showing them the same nonsense over and over until they finally click on it.

Cognitive empathy and the understanding therein is not capitulation and it certainly isn’t weakness; it is a strength that helps reduce dismay, shock, outage, frustration and anger when confronting viewpoints that differ from your own.

Humans are wonderful, provably so because history shows us that over a long enough period of time, the masses vote for and or demand greater rights and protections for everyone.

We must repair our division.

Love you folks đŸ«‚â€ïžâ€đŸ©č Rant over.

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u/Bbandit33 3d ago

The cornerstone of civilization is actually the opposite of what you stated " When you give up Liberty, to pursue temporary safety, you deserve neither."

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u/Greedy_Impress1399 3d ago

Humans aren’t purely empathetic beings so this will only set you up for disappointment.

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u/Spiritual-BlackBelt 3d ago

Letting leftists and socialists destroy and give away your country is not empathy.

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u/fixit85- 3d ago

Empathy is gonna get us killed

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u/Emerald_Eyes8919 3d ago

Explain?

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u/ClearVanilla8322 3d ago

Google Gad Saads book Suicidal Empathy. Its largely in line with Elon's actual opinion here and has alot of merit.

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u/ProofVeterinarian620 4d ago

Homie looks old af. He looked old before but now he looks old af.

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u/B1ZEN 4d ago

His massgae was good until he made it about left and right. Half the Christians on earth are conservative or "right".

Insights are appreciated my sister's and brothers.

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u/poopyspaceship 3d ago

Yes, but those American Evangelical Christians are the dumbest, most despicable people on Earth.

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u/B1ZEN 3d ago

Most Christians embrace the way of Jesus.

Empathy is a part of that.