A Boring Dystopia

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A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"kids"

You are not superior for not having empathy for homeless people

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do you think the homeless need our empathy or do they need something else?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I certainly think they will get nothing if people don't have empathy for them.

You'd be surprised by how far just caring can go. And by that, I mean genuinely, empathically, caring.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You’d be surprised by how far just caring can go. And by that, I mean genuinely, empathically, caring.

Depends a lot on who is doing the caring. For instance, if a homeless person has infinite empathy towards another one, not a lot will happen. If a particurarily unskilled politician has a lot of empathy, what they do with it might be a net negative.

So I kinda disagree with the sentiment here. Empathy alone does about as much as thoughts and prayers. Empathy isn't even required in order to help a lot of people. You can be the driest, most temperature-room person on the planet and do good things.