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Watching the Charlie Kirk video felt good. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world
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I'm not sorry. Seeing someone who spread so much hate and bigotry and weaponized disinformation get his clock cleaned was absolutely fine by me.

I have empathy for lots of people even if we don't always agree, but not for people like Charlie Kirk.

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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have said it before, and I will say it again.

Empathy is a huge strength, lack of it is a huge weakness.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child) 
    “In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

    Quotation: Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Yep, that is very accurate, an empathic society is a strong society, the empathy patches the cracks that happen when others fail, helping them gives them the opportunity to later help others.

    In any logical sense, empathy will win.

    Lack of empathy means that you loose all of that, creating a very brittle society.

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