Jesus wept.
Saying compassion vs critical thinking is such a dumb false dichotomy. Compassion is why you think critically. Compassion without critical thinking is ineffective at best and hurtful at worst. Critical thinking without compassion just turns you into a game theory robot.
The way they malign compassion isn't just a red flag, it's a bright line that shouldn't be crossed, in my book.
Empathy isn't itself an emotion. It's a cognitive process that lets you see the view point of another . Turning it off, predictably, makes you dumber.
Every time a GOP congressman suddenly decides that gay people deserve rights just because their son came out as gay , it's displaying this problem. Gay people in general don't suddenly deserve rights because of your son. A rational person can see that they either always did, or still don't. The cognitive process that could have prevented this person from being irrational before is called empathy.
Great comment!
hurtful at worst
They want to be hurtful. They are miserable people who hate everyone outside of the cult. They want to inflict maximum harm on anyone in an out group.
you think this would be obvious by now, so many liberals i'm forced to interact with day-to-day are constantly giving this...benefit of the doubt...to all the insanely cruel shit these rotten fucks do, it really confuses me.
yoy don't have to be terminally online to know these sociopaths are out to cause maximum pain to as much of the out-group as possible, it's been their playbook for the las 50z60 years....
They also dont want critical thinkers. Not really. All they really want is obedience. They want dumb people to take their spoon fed arguments as sacrosanct and feel like they're the brightest, smartest, most cunning little nazis in the room. That's always been the conservative plan.
With crazy shit like this I wonder why anyone would ever side with them
"Allie Beth Stuckey is the host of the popular podcast Relatable and author of the book Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion. She is a Christian fundamentalist and far-right extremist who argues that empathy is a bad thing because when you have it, you oppose things like breaking up immigrant families and murdering innocent civilians. Her book has an entire chapter on immigration."
There are a fuck ton of toxic people out there.
Oh I know. Most of us know this. Almost every Narcissist lacks empathy. They are for lack of clearer word evil. They have no capacity to feel the harm they are doing so they do it thinking its their right. They hate the word empathy because it interferes with the harm they are doing.
"In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and 1 now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. t'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." ⁃ Captain G. M. Gilbert, Army psychologist
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism. This loss of empathy laid the groundwork for some of humanity's darkest moments. " - Hannah Arendt
"In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and 1 now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. t'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." ⁃ Captain G. M. Gilbert, Army psychologist
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism. This loss of empathy laid the groundwork for some of humanity's darkest moments. " - Hannah Arendt
Shave the heads of women collaborators indeed
Why? Bald is beautiful
Madeline, they are Nazis. Call them Nazis.
I've come in 5th place a bunch of times. I've never decided to spend my whole life hating people as a result.
Riley Gaines is a scummy person.
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