I feel a country is only a real country if it is a kingdom ruled by a king who feels that a crisis that afflicts the realm is a personal moral crisis. Only, moral nihilism is true. Only, almost no human is capable of real empathy, and none of those humans can keep power.
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Replying to @Alrenous
This is 100% BS. Most humans are capable of real empathy, and a good percentage of leaders. They're just trapped in incentive structures. Hate to contradict you but you're being pessimistic to an unrealistic (and unhealthy) degree
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Replying to @AMK2934
We probably have different definitions of empathy. Yours isn't useful though.
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I mean, they have empathy if you consider "imagine the other person is an exact clone of yourself" to be empathy. I consider it to be narcissism.
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Someone mentioned extended narcissism the other day (or something like it), suggesting that a person's natural narcissism could be extended to a group.
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Less extended kin group than extended self.
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That's the frame I've set in my marriage and it's worked well so far. I'm trying to extend it out to my extended family for my kids, but we'll see if it's workable social tech or rationalization.
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I didn't really grow up though until I flipped the question: "what kind of person would I be if I were him?" That made me realize there was a whole other mental world out there.
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Yes, that sounds less ineffective.
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