If I were in his shoes I would let my biological mother die of cancer alone and refuse to be at her funeral
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But people in real life often get weirded out by my harshness towards blood relatives and probably think I'm a monster!
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"Let my bio mom die alone and in m pain and refuse to even cobble together even a farce of a relationship at death" is considered extreme
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The only reason I seem to have empathy for Tizon's choice there is that I know most of you most sanctimonious readers would do the same
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In truth I don't empathize with his choice there at all. It grates at me quite a bit.
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That he compartmentalized his feelings about Lola and allowed himself to be at her bedside is pretty revolting to me tbh
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I wonder how politics of social reproduction here might relate to concepts debt, utang na loob etc
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That's an essay I definitely want to read
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do you find it weird that people think it's bad to have empathy for people who do really fucked up shit? we're told, rightly, to have
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empathy for young kids from violent neighborhoods who commit murder -- that they're not irredeemable. i dunno, disturbs me a little to
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think we can't have a bit of empathy even for people who do awful stuff, though whenever I raise it on Twitter there's fierce pushback
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Don't understand that criticism - "how dare you have empathy" ? Incredibly difficult situation, he tried to navigate it. Not perfect, who is
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