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How Empathy Becomes An Enemy (Read by a Digital Voice)
How Empathy Becomes An Enemy A lack of empathy does more than render people indifferent; it makes suffering easier to dismiss, injustice easier to justify, and cruelty easier to permit. When we lose the willingness to understand another person’s pain, we risk treating people as inconveniences or, worse, as obstacles to selfish motives.
The darker reality of viewing empathy as something to avoid is a tendency toward extreme measures against “subjects” labeled guilty or suspicious. Harsh actions aim to demonstrate a “tough” anti-empathetic stance. Recent news about potentially live-streaming a…
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