#EMPATHY

[victusinveritas]

[disco-archetypes]

KIM KITSURAGI - "Detective?" He turns to you.

YOU - "Khm... yes. I believe the pheromone it emits may be responsible for the killer's mental degradation."

KIM KITSURAGI - "The old man was not *aware* of the phasmid's presence. Exhibiting a strange, atypical dementia, he fell into a stupor after its appearance. He became near-catatonic."

JUDIT MINOT - "So it *is* connected...?"

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "..."

TRANT HEIDELSTAM - "I must say, this," he points to the photo, "is absolutely extraordinary. It's... I don't even have *words* for it."

JEAN VICQUEMARE - "Yes. It really does make it hard to fire the drunk..." His tired eyes follow the photo as the lieutenant puts it away.

EMPATHY - This is a very, very sad man who has just seen something that's made him forget his sadness.

[thoughtstherapy]

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[honourablejester]

Given the number of people who seem to interact with the concept of racism as ‘a list of types of people I’m not allowed to be rude to’, with no interest in examining their behaviour or the systemic structures around that behaviour further than that, and given the increasingly fascist movements rising across the world, and given the number of people on this post not wanting to respect a fictional character or treat them like a person because ‘they scare me’ or ‘they’re not human’, and given how those very phrases are the excuse most fascists use to dehumanise and destroy groups of people, actually I think our society has very much NOT moved past the need to learn how to treat someone society has told you isn’t human like a person anyway, because they self-evidently are, no matter what label they’ve been given.  So, you know. I think empathy for robots is still a good and unfortunately necessary training exercise, actually.

Plus, you know. If we ever actually do make sentient robots, it might do no harm to have a non-harmful idea of how to live with them.

the reason "robot racism" is often a really stupid metaphor is the same reason that like. discrimination against demons or vampires or whatever doesn't work, is because there's often a pretty justified reasons humans are scared of vampires or robots or whatever, in a way that doesn't apply to real life minorities, like a fantasy author will be like "the reason vampires are discriminated against is because most of them and kill and eat people for fun and pleasure, and so humans respond by trying to kill them, isn't that so sad" and like no that's a perfectly fine reason to not trust vampires i think.

[shining-dawn]

The way the government treats homeless people and panhandlers ought to be evidence enough on its own that empathy doesn't always lead to ethical behavior. Middle and upper class people get uncomfortable seeing homeless people because seeing someone in a bad state triggers an uncomfortable empathic response. They feel bad seeing people suffering. But people respond by trying to remove the source of their discomfort just as often as they respond with compassion.

That's why cities respond with hostile architecture and brutality. They just need to make the problem invisible, and people stop complaining.

Empathy is very useful, but it's no substitute for actual ethical principles.

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

Cory Booker is reading letters from his constituents and tearing up repeatedly and it’s making me cry.

[liberalsarecool]

Women are brave.

#ReverendMariannEdgarBudde

This just in; Christians now angry at church bishop for saying church things in a church.

[gnarlywavedude]

here's the study referenced in the book quoted above: Gender Differences, Motivation, and Empathic Accuracy: When It Pays to Understand (Klein & Hodges, 2001)

“Kristi Klein and Sara Hodges used an empathic accuracy test in which participants watched a video of a woman talking about her failure to get a high enough score on an exam to get into the graduate school she wanted to attend. When the feminine nature of the empathic accuracy test was highlighted by asking participants for sympathy ratings before the empathic accuracy test, women scored significantly better than men. But a second group of women and men went through exactly the same procedure but with one vital difference: they were offered money for doing well. Specifically, they earned $2 for every correct answer. This financial incentive levelled the performance of women and men, showing that when it literally 'pays to understand' male insensitivity is curiously easily overcome.”

- Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender

[jacobnordby]

Message of the year:

“How do you spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel. The kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” — Gov Pritzker

[dduane]

This is a long uncomfortable read, but the most complete analysis of the abhorrent shit-take on a quality vital for human life that I’ve seen so far.

Grit your teeth, if necessary, but read it if you can. Understanding—as a foundation for future action—counts for more than comfort, sometimes.

[youlookkindadead]

i've seen quite a bit of confusion about this, so let me attempt to clear things up :

empathy is the ability to feel somebody's emotions as though they are affecting you personally. for example, somebody tells you "my dog died last night!" -> you now feel as though you've lost a pet personally -> you feel grief and sadness just like the other person. not everyone has empathy. it's a trait some people develop and others don't. some have high empathy, some have low empathy, some (like me) have none.

sympathy is the ability to understand and care about somebody else's struggles, even if you don't feel them yourself. so, somebody tells you their dog died -> you realize how this affects them emotionally -> you care about this person, and are upset that they are suffering. not everyone has sympathy either! it's a scale, just like empathy.

compassion is doing something to relieve another person's suffering or make them feel better. somebody tells you their dog died -> you don't want them to remain upset -> you come up with ways to help them feel better, like offering comfort and distractions, or other forms of support. compassion is a learned trait, not something you can be born with like empathy or sympathy. anyone can learn to be compassionate, although some may struggle more with it than others; it's a skill, just like anything else.

however, none of these are required to be a good person. that's a choice you make on your own accord. i hope this clears things up!

[fracturedporcelaindoll]

This ~ Beautiful ~

i miss autumn

[itsaspectrumcomic]

Sometimes it feels like I'm absorbing the emotions of everyone around me

[disco-archetypes]

EMPATHY - He's seen your kind before. As a lorry driver he's familiar with every addiction, compulsion, and self-destructive habit known to a man.

[mmyolk]

i am not religious nor am i american but this wonderful woman made me feel very inspired so i did a quick study