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▲ ndsipa_pomu 5 days ago

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▲nobodywillobsrv 5 days ago | parent [-]

No the empathy comment is about it being confused with naive sympathy.

Empathy means fully simulating the other person state of mind and world. Empathy is cognitive spend.

Love thy enemy is a short cut because human brains seem to be unable to think properly in anger. You need to simulate your enemy to understand their positions and seek deals.

▲ndsipa_pomu 5 days ago | parent [-]

I don't follow what you're trying to say here.

If you think that encouraging empathy is a bad thing and discouraging empathy is good, then there's little hope for you. The lack of empathy can easily be shown to lead to the evils of Nazism and the desire to be cruel to people who are not "in our group" (e.g. their skin colour is different or were born elsewhere)