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man, imagine you think someone is attempting to destroy civilization, and then in the process they get struck down with terrible things directly related to how they're destroying civilization. the amount of sympathy you'd have for them would probably be zilch

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Apr 7, 2022

I'm surprised the AIDS epidemic among gay people doesn't have a stronger cultural impact than it did (which is admittedly big!); having ppl get sick and die for engaging in exactly the behavior conservatives disapproved of must have been such intense fuel and justification.

Aella

@Aella_Girl

imagine your hated group of choice (billionaires, russian soldiers, sjws, etc.) suddenly develop a terrifying illness directly from having too much money/entering ukraine/making horrible policies. Would you feel any compassion, or would you be like 'well you got what was comin'?

3:52 PM · Apr 7, 2022

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I'm real impressed we as a culture managed to decouple the morality around gayness from the bad outcomes of HIV; this is a great example of why decoupling is a *good* thing; low decoupling would be unable to properly separate the two!

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I hope I'd have compassion! But realistically I probably wouldn't have as much as I'd like.

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I mean Covid has demonstrated a lot of people have schadenfreude. My response to these things is usually just, “this is all so fucked man” and then try to focus on something else.

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IMO it's relatively easy to have empathy for every human no matter what they do/did. Sympathy is a different matter to me. I might understand "why" but it didn't make me compassionate.

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There is a huge difference between the negative perception towards rich and Russian soldiers. Russian soldiers rape women, kill civilians and loot homes. Wishing them death is ok. Some actions are objectively more evil, and do not deserve any compassion

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apples/oranges?

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