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“This failure to register another's feelings is a major deficit in emotional intelligence, and a tragic failing in what it means to be human. For all rapport, the root of caring, stems from emotional attunement, from the capacity for empathy. The absence of empathy is also telling, its lack is seen in criminal psychopaths, rapists and child molesters.”
Those who fake empathy and lack remorse are no better.
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Those who fake empathy and lack remorse are no better.
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Jennifer
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I appreciate the focus on hope and optimism, and why a certain subset of pessimists are so fucking draining—they feel no need to change. “I’m a failure. I’ll never amount to anything. Life’s unfair.” Enter apathy, malaise, depression, despair, and the abdication of agency that renders them helpless, ego-bound, and entitled. I do what I want! Who cares about you! I’m the victim! Me. ME. MEEE!
Ew. No.
— Nov 10, 2026 06:16AM
Ew. No.
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The ability to understand someone's pain can make a person emotionally perceptive. What they choose to do with that understanding is the definition of their character.
Understanding another person's suffering doesn't make someone good. Their treatment of that suffering is what matters.I could write a dissertation on this.
Grater emotional understanding creates greater moral responsibility. THAT’S the hill I’ll die on.
Moral insight that never becomes reparative action is intentional cruelty and psychopathy.Fight me.
Jack shit. That’s what.