I have a lot of ambivalent feelings about the word 'empathy' and the way it's used Because the more someone valorises it, the more likely they are to demand it for themselves and/or use it as a stick to beat dissidents and neurodivergents with But it's also an important skill
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And that, well, is a can of worms It tends to happen a lot in life that the emotions other people have in reaction to our emotions aren't the reaction we *wanted* at all This can be very frustrating But that's the human condition, because we can't actually read minds
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And I think that *sometimes* when people are constantly frustrated by other people's "lack of empathy" it is because for whatever reason that communicating emotion isn't automatic psychic powers, it's a fallible human process that sometimes takes effort to accomplish
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If empathy is an audio-visual stimulus response than it doesn’t affirm their intrinsic goodness so it can’t be that
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Part of the problem is empathy has a lot of definitions, so it's slippery, and people flip between definitions as it pleases them. Some types of empathy are very important for society... others are not.
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