There was a meme like 15 years ago that was like “I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about other people”
Some people just … don’t. If I had a magic wand I’d just send them off to their own private pocket planes, but alas.
It’s one of those no tolerance for the intolerant things. Zero empathy for those that don’t give a fuck about others. Everything else, I can do.
Racist? Have empathy for others? I can work with it. If you don’t, there’s literally know way to make those people feel what’s necessary to push forward. They will do more damage than whatever alternative you can imagine
It is the bare minimum to ask. If you can’t afford that, the cost is your soul.
People keep mixing up empathy and sympathy and it’s one of my biggest pet peeves.
Empathy is the ability to take the perspective of another person and understand their emotional state. To put yourself into their shoes.
Sympathy is a feeling of compassion you have when you see someone else’s suffering.
Empathy can be part of sympathy but it can also have nothing to do with sympathy. Scammers, for example, use empathy to manipulate their victims by predicting how they will respond, based on their emotional state. Empathy is a skill with no moral content. How you use empathy determines whether it’s a good or bad act.
