It’s important to realize most humans never progress past the phase where they see other humans as objects to be moved around by actions and words. They’re not out to hurt or exploit, but conversations and actions are tailored to manipulate objects, not cultivate a relationship.
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Learning that other humans have full perspectives and feelings is called empathy. This needs to be cultivated through childhood to reach the point where a person looks at the world as a series of relationship rather than navigating through objects toward their personal goal.
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The extreme form of this is antisocial personality disorder, acting brutally upon humans as unfeeling objects for the sake of exploiting them for personal gain. Most are not that severe. But at best, most people ACT as if other humans are no better than unthinking animals.
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If you ask them about it they truly believe they have empathy, but most don’t ACT on relationships, they act as if manipulating objects or managing dangerous animals. Their goal is to manipulate the objects and animals alone to reach their own goal.
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When a person learns to focus more on cultivating relationships and working toward mutual goals with open transactions based on mutual gain, they’ve discovered the secret to a fulfilling life. It also makes you wildly different from most people, and people take notice.
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