Empathy is not a finite resource. You don’t need to triage your compassion. To reserve your concern only for the most deserving is to do nothing but ration infinite imagination.
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Finally, I hope that humans of the future are gonna be heaps better vs this generation at moral triage. *if* we're currently experiencing a failure or moral triage then might not that be linked to who we choose to empathise with and who we don't?
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I think the failure is in assuming that we need moral triage. So many of the world's ills are caused by the belief that some people are more deserving of compassion than others.
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It's probably the time issue that's not sitting well with me. > having empathy for person A does not reduce the empathy available for person B Agreed. Empathy for person A reduces the *time* available for empathy person B.
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Time isn't to be lightly dismissed - meaningful practice involves challenge+reflection+response+rearrangement. Also, past a certain point, more of X probably has undesirable consequence Y which again demands time to be dealt with.
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