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A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system (lemmy.world)
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[–] 3 points 2 years ago* (2 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.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    You would still need to the wherewithal to identify that help is needed. Be it empathy from within or external, if no one cared it would never reach even the lukiest of warm persons desk.

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