In short, I talk a lot abt trying to understand other people's motivations & feelings & then working with them to resolve things.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @oreil_m
This is empathy first, really getting it, and then trying to work out how to find solutions using principles & reason.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @oreil_m
Recently, ppl are disparaging of the empathy bit, implying it lacks reason & principles as tho these things cannot work together.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
If you want to understand pro-lifers or racists, do you really need to know how they feel?
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Replying to @oreil_m
Do you like Jonathan Haidt? He has been mind-changing for me. I can understand & empathise a lot more now & it works!
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Replying to @HPluckrose @oreil_m
Pro-life comes from the care-harm foundation usually but ppl think it comes from the authority/subversion so they can't address it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Yes, true. But I'm not sure you need need empathy to realise this.
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Replying to @oreil_m
I do. Perhaps other people can work it out intellectually & analytically.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @oreil_m
But most of the time I am appealing to people to understand how others feel coz they're saying 'evil, hateful bigot - punish him.'
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Replying to @HPluckrose @oreil_m
Or less hyperbolic versions of the same thing. They misjudge motivations coz they don't get how people really feel.
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Whatever, the correct word is for the thing I'm urging ppl to do & trying to do better myself, I've used 'empathy' &been understood
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