All by design...
Who cares...
Couldn't pass that quote up.
Maybe less “empathy” = more common sense. “Empathy” is a code word for social liberalism, e.g. obama’s SC appointments have lots and lots of “empathy” from which to decide future cases.
Oh yeah? Well I don’t care WHAT those college kids think OR feel.
Their empathy receptors are saturated by long-term overdosing on political correctness.
heh heh... let me take the contrarian view and we’ll see how it goes.
ZERO empathy is definitely a bad thing — but EXCESSIVE empathy is just as bad. Especially when it’s accompanied by a lack of thinking and analysis skills.
Think about it: by definition, “empathy” is what leads one to identify with another individual or group and “feel their pain”.
But excessive raw empathy is too easily manipulated by those skillful at painting a picture of a group (say, illegal aliens?) by picking an anecdotal example and playing on individual’s empathy to encourage them to draw the conclusion that ALL people of the group (i.e. ALL illegal aliens) are pathetic victims.
Isn’t this one of the main problem with liberals? That they emphasize undiscriminated “feelings” at the expense of rational thought?
No, give me a university system that trains minds to THINK and ANALYZE — hopefully without tearing down every shred of empathy.
Just my 2c
I suspect this alleged lack of empathy has more to do with the lame method of measuring it than anything else.
Why should we treat people with any respect?
They’re just an “accident of evolution”, of no more value than monkeys or pigs or rats...
And that whole “think of others before yourself” is such a religious concept, and religion is just a crutch for the weak minded.
Empathy disappears in other contexts too. The military in particular selectively damages empathy in people, because you can’t have empathy for someone you have to shoot. That’s not to say that soldiers are heartless bastards; they’re not, as seen by countless humanitarian gestures they make, but at the same time they have to be able to turn it off like a switch, and the result is that even when they feel it, it’s never quite the same.
They are a mirror of the empathy their career moms showed at the daycare door.
This can be good or bad, depending, as others have said here.
Empathy for loved ones such as grandparents who no longer ‘deserve to get health care’ is a terrible one, and we have heard young people say these things in the past couple years.
On the flip side, our society has been ‘over-empathetic’ and victims of politicians using those feelings to build an overreaching giant bureaucracy in the effort to show we ‘care’ about people for too long. Less empathy in that area would be a good thing.
My guess is it is the first example, and we are f-—ed.
The relentless promotion of self-esteem as an educational goal in itself now begins to bear toxic fruit.
They’ll be perfect liberal marxists... filled with concern for “humanity” in general, and quite indifferent to the means by which they achieve their ends.
SH**, “empathy” is what got us spending Trillions and Trillions on folks who just abuse it. I think we have Empathy Fatigue.
Nice set up for the 0bama youth squad
Serial killers have no empathy for their victims. They seem to get a high from the killing of others. Maybe it is a power thing.
They (psychologists) have another name for it that is escaping me at the moment.
Dump the kids in day care - turn ‘em over to liberal teachers - and this is a surprise?