Great trend
Great trend
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You just need to make it sexy
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Empathy is sexy.
if a hookup showed me empathy, I'll melt into a puddle and stick with them as if someone replaced the lube with cyanoacrylates.
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Viral trends need to work for the majority of people or they cannot spread. Has the majority enough critical thinking capacity to turn it into an ability?
Maybe start with creating a place where people with empathy and critical thinking abilities can meet.
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join mutual aid challenge bro
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Best I can do is a demeaning money booth for random homeless people.
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The thoughts in my head of what woupd actually happen if it came true are scary and depressing. I couldn't put it into proper words. Now I nees to go find a distraction.
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What kind of memes would that involve?
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demure and mindful?
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I dont know... Critical thinking has gotten us to some pretty dark times recently. It needs to be the right kind of critical thinking
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You can't think that mindlessly believing what people tell you is better than evaluating it for yourself.
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OK so down the chain you clarified that you meant selective critical thinking. Sure, I mean, It’s not even just right wingers who do this; decent people do it too.
That being said, I think it’s inherent in critical thinking that it is not selective. That’s a fundamental feature. So I wouldn’t agree that critical thinking has gotten us into anything…
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I think it depends on what your end goal is. Like if your ideal state is a world without pain or suffering, then you're going to land at different points of the critical thinking investigation than if you're xenophobic and can't handle anyone but seconds cousins being in your vicinity.
So yeah, critical thinking is a great tool, but I agree doesn't come with empathy built-in.
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Great idea! Here, I'll start:
People need to understand that there is a difference between empathy and sympathy, and the former does not imply the latter. Empathy simply means understanding where a person is coming from (i.e. their motives), it does not require that you agree with them.
If only more people understood this, the world would already look so much nicer.
I'm not sure it would look nicer, but at least it'd be more honest.
Precisely. Like I realize that people who want my family deported or murdered are fully human and have a similar experience of physical reality as I do, but that understanding their perspective doesn't mean I agree with them, or lead me to believe I shouldn't defend myself against their intolerance.
Understanding that everyone else is also human is really just the ground floor of empathy. You can go so much further than that.