RE: Empathy & Liberty: The fog of altruism
It may sound rude, but I couldn’t care less about death of 1 people or millions of them, as long as none was known by me and me and my close ones are not under threat because of that event. This doesn’t have anything to do with empathy to me. I’m very empathetic and I can unlock it or lock it as I will. Why would I drain my energy trying to by empathetic towards every1...even those that don’t want it. I mainly chose to not care about what people want to hear even though I of course know it partly because of empathy and partly because of logic and I rather say what I truly think. This effectively selects the people I spend time with afterwards:D. I have created my morality. I have created my logical processes that help me do the decision about anything I make and I chose to lock empathy somewhere else, to await the call for it when any1 I want to embrace with it needs it. I use it as an instrument to understand the other person, rather than to let it sway my judgment...Thats just my take on it though:). Anyway this post is brutally underrated therefore I up voted it with the strength of minnowsupport...it’s not much but hey, it’s all the influence I have:P
Thanks for the vote. Not rude at all. Actually that is the point of the article. We shouldn't be empathic when making desicions. (Edit)
Point of the article is that using empathy clouds judgement. Imagine if society empathised with rape victims, and due to this empathy used the legal system to cast all men as potential rapists.
It was not necessarily about caring about the masses, I could careless about them too, or even homeless. I care about myself then my family, then my friends and so on.
Yea I understood the point:P. I just felt that I would add something that I would incorporate into the text if I was writing about empathy you know...giving my own perspective...
No, what you said did add value. It shows that not all people are driven by empathy. I am concerned about the trend towards encouraging a more feminine empathic society. Which is why I wrote the piece. Thanks mate, for the support as well 2 bucks hardly seems worth it to make posts like this.