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The hardest part of the political climate right now (lemmy.world)

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

That's because it's hard to empathize with a group of people. Empaiy is always about individuals.

Yes, but I see that as a distinct lack of empathy.

Lazy brain also doesn't have issues thinking about how to benefit itself over others in contrast of the way it can stop being emphatic about others.

We were hardwired to that.

And the only way to evolve is through powering through urges like that 'laziness about empathy', or just live as we always have (but now on global destructive level with basically 0 realistic/actionable chances of going extinct).

[–] CheesyFox 1 points 4 days ago

Yes, but I see that as a distinct lack of empathy. And why so? As i already said, groups are inherently abstract. We don't empathize with groups, we empathize sith individuals inside of them.

Blind devotion to a group is not empathy, it's tribalism, and is inherently leading to "us vs them" mentality, that every politician loves so much to leverage.

And the only way to evolve is through powering through urges like that...

By powering yourself through, you'll just wear yourself down, feeling absolutely miserable before snapping into apathy. It's a completely unrealistic and unfair expectation towards anybody, not far from christian dogmatics.