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Posted Sunday, June 4, 2023
1y
INTP
Cancer
Empathy is useless change my mind
excessive empathy is probably the reason we have such terrible people in the world. Nobody can be honest with anybody so Karen's run amok and kids are terrible cause you can't tell them or they parents how terrible a job they doing. Hardships build character and not being able to give cold hard honesty to ppl just let them stay a terrible person from a child to an adult.
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Caleb
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Aries
What you describe isn't empathy, but blind love. To be truly empathic is to try to understand where people come from, by also try to nudge them in the right direction, empathy doesn't mean "understanding why someone commits.evil, and letting them get away with it" it's knowing why someone commits evil, and loving them all the same, and trying to help them be better. Like you said, parents tryto help their kids learn better behaviours, that is true empathy unless the parent didn't actually.understand why the child.felt that way.
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JJCARPENTER44
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ISFJ
Capricorn
Not useless but over used. It all about balance. If a veteran becomes disabled I find empathy in that. I mean you was trying to do something good got put in a bad situation and it turned out bad. But if you became disabled in a hanglideing accident I have much less empathy you created your own hardship. I agree, honesty is no long welcome or appreciated. But I don't care, I will never not be honest. In a dishonest world you will be called a lier for telling the simple truth.
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Maxwell
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INFJ
Leo
No, stop conflating empathy with passivity. Empathy is what drives a person to deliver harsh news *tactfully*, in a way that makes it clear they care about the person's wellbeing. Saying your options are either a) be bluntly honest or b) never speak up is a pretty obvious false dichotomy
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Nick
1y
INFJ
Gemini
Ok, I agree with you. First. But empathy can also be used as tool to defend yourself. And stay safe like being alert. On a whole other level. Every place you go you feel differently and around each new person. You can feel shifts in people's intents or how they speak or move. And if the world has gone mad. Which, ya it sort of has. It's good to have all the tools you can find. Even if iteans people will judge you. That's a ok. As long as I excape all those zombies.
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Dale
1y
ESTP
Scorpio
Empathy isn't the problem here. People are responsible for themselves and their own issues. Being empathetic also requires the empathizer to be responsible for themselves, too. Maybe that means they need to be more judicious about what they're sharing with the person they're empathizing with.
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Anca
1y
ENFJ
Scorpio
If you go outside USA you ll find a different culture and how things are radical different. America’s problem, from my perspective, is having too much freedom and a lack of traditional values plus lack of ethics on any digital platform. Your population number is incredible and as expected, chaos can emerge. Emphathy makes us human, relate to others and connect to others. (edited)
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