It also seems worth noting to me that the women in the example felt justified in ganging up to attack a real individual - the clinician - in defense not of another individual, but of the abstract category of "people who die by suicide."
Remove considerations of complex and messy reality, and feelings can become unlimited, based on a map of reality which is increasingly simplistic, schematic and cartoonish. This produces the mindset of a fanatic possessed by genocidal rage.
For instance, the current conception of human rights is a double oxymoron: it is neither human, as its object is abstract groups, nor rights, as it entails arbitrary demands, not the protection of the individual from such incursions.
Great article, about the irony when people claim (rightly so) empathy is important perhaps to virtue signal, while themselves seemingly failing to show empathy.
Can guarantee with 100% certainty that these winners showing offense to mundane word choices in academic settings are also the ones either actively marching for Hamas and other terror organizations or egging on those who do.
It also seems worth noting to me that the women in the example felt justified in ganging up to attack a real individual - the clinician - in defense not of another individual, but of the abstract category of "people who die by suicide."
Exactly. They felt justified. Feelings over facts.
Remove considerations of complex and messy reality, and feelings can become unlimited, based on a map of reality which is increasingly simplistic, schematic and cartoonish. This produces the mindset of a fanatic possessed by genocidal rage.
For instance, the current conception of human rights is a double oxymoron: it is neither human, as its object is abstract groups, nor rights, as it entails arbitrary demands, not the protection of the individual from such incursions.
so interesting Nathalie . So useful to listen to this particularly as a man trying to get better at affective empathy for women and men. #LongRoad 🙏
Great article, about the irony when people claim (rightly so) empathy is important perhaps to virtue signal, while themselves seemingly failing to show empathy.
Can guarantee with 100% certainty that these winners showing offense to mundane word choices in academic settings are also the ones either actively marching for Hamas and other terror organizations or egging on those who do.
Bless you for writing this.