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atferrari

atferrari

Joined Jan 6, 2004
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Way too many trips to toilette plus curiosity. One more attempt to sleep maybe two more hours and then up for office work.

In three days flying to Patagonia. A new lady coming to Madryn, maybe in the Magellan Strait by now.
 
nsaspook

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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https://www.npr.org/sections/health...thy-have-a-dark-side?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Empathy seems like a good quality in human beings. Pure and simple.

It allows us to consider the perspective of others — to put ourselves in their shoes and imagine their experiences. From that empathetic vantage point, only good things can come, right?

Not necessarily, according to author Fritz Breithaupt. "Sometimes we commit atrocities not out of a failure of empathy but rather as a direct consequence of successful, even overly successful, empathy," he writes in his forthcoming book The Dark Sides of Empathy.
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atferrari

atferrari

Joined Jan 6, 2004
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nsaspook said:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health...thy-have-a-dark-side?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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After reading this I started to believe he seems right. Way to many Madre Teresa out there, I feel.

My core argument here is that in many cases of altruistic help or humanitarian aid, people actually don't really empathize as much with the person in need. They identify more with the helper, the hero, the person who intervenes even if it's an imaginary helper.

It can be good when it leads to good action, but it can have downsides. For example, if you want the victims to say 'thank you.' You may even want to keep the people you help in that position of inferior victim because it can sustain your feeling of being a hero.

If you want recognition and if that doesn't come, it can turn into resentment. That's an unfortunately common impulse. On the political scale, I think it happened in Germany. In 2015 Germany opened its borders, very laudably, to refugees. Initially there was a wave of huge enthusiasm, and then suddenly a huge drop in enthusiasm and a lot of resentment.
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