Thanks for responding again! Would you say that empathy is 1. being able to feel the pain of people whose pain you see or 2. abstractly claiming to feel the pain of people you have heard about in a news story As for your Q's: 1. no, no, what is trolling"?
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Replying to @gtaogle @SteveInRealife
It is obvious you think we fall under number 2. You know what trolling is.
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Replying to @alfstrada @gtaogle
There is no 2. They are the same concept. It's a false dichotomy and one of the most perfect examples of the fallacy I've ever seen.
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Replying to @SteveInRealife @alfstrada
Really? That's odd. You know, I have actually felt the pain of people with physical and psychological injuries while in person, but in general "news stories" do not communicate this effect. I'm not certain what you mean by "empathy", therefore.
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Replying to @SteveInRealife @alfstrada
I think maybe you're confused, being miseducated on language (as we all are today) - the word you are looking for is "compassion" and "being compassionate", which I will admit, I reserve compassion for real beings.
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Replying to @gtaogle @SteveInRealife
I take it that you don't like some if not all immigrants? Is it their coming from other countries that bothers you, specific countries, or just their skin color? Why do you think they replace you? Are they not "real beings"?
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Replying to @alfstrada @SteveInRealife
A news story is not a real being, as in many cases it has been revealed that photos are staged, numbers are falsified, or individual stories are simply not true. If you understood this, your time on the internet would be less emotionally charged.
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Replying to @gtaogle @alfstrada
This is possibly the dumbest argument anyone has ever made. Without hyperbole. This is...astoundingly stupid.
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Replying to @SteveInRealife @gtaogle
Translation: The world is overwhelming and confusing so... emotional triage time. If someone isn't a part of his personal Dunbar's number then fuck 'em. Tribalism masked by ignorance.
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On the other hand, consider the following: without confirmation, it's possible to tell a person a number of things on the internet, which they may believe. If they take such hearsay (which can be completely fabricated) seriously, they will be upset over things .. that aren't.
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