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• DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m beginning to think that the number of people that just can not feel empathy is way higher than most people thought.

  I always assumed that a complete lack of empathy was associated with an actual psychiatric disorder. But that’s the crux of what’s happening on the world today, isn’t it? A huge percentage of the populace are literally just completely incapable of feeling empathy for their fellow humans. And they’re mad that they’ve been told that they have to, ya know, care about other people.

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think it’s more about material conditions, if you have a rewards system that encourages lack of empathy you’ll be filtering out people with it.

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  • bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Who’s telling people to care now, though? It seems like the opposite to me. I’m hearing from people I know that therapists are telling them and encouraging them to ghost people that are stressing them out.

    I remember years ago in a psychology class, the psychology professor talking about how there had been research done saying that most people that had a positive view of themselves tended to avoid negative people.

    That really bothered me, because I thought how would avoiding all negative people do anything but make the world a worse place? It seemed like to me if you were doing well and had a positive view of things that you would be strong enough to lend your strength to other people to help them.

    When my spouse died and I went to the support group.The first thing the counselor said was to try not to take it personally when friends and family turned away from us because we were widows and widowers, because evidently, this is a common thing that is happening today, that when a spouse dies, family and friends are turning away from the surviving spouse just because they don’t want to deal with the ideas of death and the sadness of it. So widows now are getting very little support even from their own families and friends.

    I think the lack of empathy problem stems from both psychiatric disorder and systematic encouragement. We are being ruled by psychopaths, and they are using the system to train people to think that it’s okay to not have empathy.

    I don’t think we’re going to get through this world without removing psychopaths from positions of power high and low. We have to stop letting psychopaths control anything. They cannot be president.They cannot run for any political office. And we shouldn’t even let them work at the dmv or have any kind of power over anyone in any capacity, because it always goes badly when you let someone that has no empathy control other people’s lives.

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• Photonic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Empathy is impossible to achieve. Compassion… maybe.

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  • hayvan@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Semantics. Nobody is talking about literal telepathic feeling.

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    • Photonic@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Neither am I. And it’s much more than semantics: actually understanding the other person’s feelings is much more difficult than not understanding but being a decent human being anyway.

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    • SpicyLizards@reddthat.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Trab pu kcip

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• SpicyLizards@reddthat.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Although we seem pretty immune these days, i hope so too.

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  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Vaccinated by racism and xenophobia

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• SoftQuartz@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  🙏

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• doug@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  (spoiler for The Bone Temple:

  ::: spoiler Tap for spoiler I was feeling an apt theme between the virus and the ‘cure’/slowing down and being meditative. I really hope they continue into the third installment ::: )

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• Siethron@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How about sympathy.

  I’m empathetic and it’s given me a hatred of face piercings.

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• WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wondered if someone could make a virus to implant genes related to empathy, releasing only abvirus that gives cold-like symptoms.

  The answer is no.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s like a muscle. Most everyone has the capability. You need to exercise it.

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    • Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I always like talking about the myth of the genius. Intelligence is not a ‘talent’ but something that has to be fostered, and there are many forms of intelligence.

      What we’re encountering more and more I feel is that there is a stark lack of any degree of teaching people emotional intelligence in our communities, leaving the responsibility on parents who often more than not don’t have the tools or have been actively conditioned not to teach emotions. (Eg. ‘boys will be boys’)

      How many of these people we claim lack the ability to feel empathy have ever seen a therapist in good faith to learn why they feel certain ways and how to channel that productively?

      We need more mental health programs and more accessibility to make more people aware of their affect on others.

      And for those that have no interest in learning to regulate and understand themselves and their effects on their communities and families are childish and their opinions can be dismissed.

      I want a kinder world that learns to help each other and why that’s important, evidenced by the people around them that help them every day.

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s certainly genes that make some people less empathetic, making some more likely to be psychopaths.

      If only those genes could disappear without anyone noticing.

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