Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different

• Zacpod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I didn’t say they were “all bad.” I said they lacked empathy and I wasn’t interested in being friends with them.

  Conservative and progressive brains are different.
  scientificamerican.com/…/conservative-and-liberal…

  And one of those differences is empathy. academic.oup.com/scan/article/18/1/…/7175525

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  • Free_Opinions@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    One side has empathy. The other does not.

    You generalized as if everyone on the left has empathy and no one on the right does. That’s simply not true. Group differences like this are often larger within the group than between them. While it might be true that, on average, people on the right are less empathetic than those on the left, it’s neither fair nor accurate to imply that one side has empathy and the other doesn’t.

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    • Zacpod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Eh. Fits with what I see in politics, the folks voting for right winger, and my own experiences conversing with them IRL. I see no issue with making that assumption and then being pleasantly surprised the odd time it isn’t true.

      Maybe it’s a North America thing, tho. It’s quite possible that the euro flavor of right wing is a more empathetic group.

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  • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ive been down both sides of the indoctrination rabbit hole both the alt left and the alt right pipelines lead to the same place.

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    • Zacpod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ya, I’m not talking about extremists. I’m talking about just normal everyday people.

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      • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Exactly. So therefore ur side who contains its own extremists cant be all good can it. Therefore ur binary view us fundamentally flawed. The more u try and stick to it claim ur side is all righteous and the other side is all evil the the more u become the extremist u claim to denounce.

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• iii@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  One would need empathy to understand that ;)

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  • Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Empathy is something that can be learned like any ability, it isn’t always a binary you have it or you don’t.

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