If your so-called empathy is based upon ideological principles then it's not empathy, it's sympathy and it bides within alienation. It's not a connection to the unique, but a submission to an ideal.
Moral lesson? The idea is that if we bypass the ideological constructs surrounding human needs and are able to connect on the level of needs by extending compassion rather than by resorting to moralistic judgement, which is only alienating and apt to escalation, conflict resolves
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No, studies show that using empathy & compassion on oppressors is self defeating, especially when a threat is present. The humanizing thing only works the other way. Oppressed people are compelled to empathize & be compassionate to oppressors it doesn’t help.
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The oppressed vs. oppressor narrative is based upon a false dichotomy. The reality is much more complex. I don't know of any legitimate studies which show that actual empathy is self defeating in any sense and I doubt the veracity of any such studies, if they actually exist.
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So the state & capitalism aren’t oppressive? And you’ll just dismiss data out of hand if it contradicts? Bc that’s exactly what I said the selfhood concept requires you to do, so, I mean sure.
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Oppression is more like a fractal than a clearly demarcated line. The idea that capitalism & the state = oppression is backwards. Rather, oppression, that is to say the mode of violence = capitalism & the state in a feedback loop. Like, I mean, that's how capital grows.
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Agree to disagree on this one too friend.
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