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I Write As a Form of Therapy

It’s easier to dehumanize than to empathize.
TheLoveAge · 36-40, F
One should consider how life is a skill. It takes practice to be anything and to know how to bounce back, and to roll with the punches. One event isn't the end all be all of your humanity. Again practice makes anything possible. So its possible to be empathic and human towards one another with continuity.
Chaoshead · 22-25, M
Debatable 🤔
Chaoshead · 22-25, M
@Tatsumi I guess we just disagree on what empathy is. They thought they felt the pain, passions and even shared an identity with one another. IMO, it's a profound empathy. But I can see how that can be viewed as less genuine or frivolous because it's mass-produced. But I'd argue that all groups (not just the nazi's) have shared experiences that foster a group identity, take for example african americans reaction to police violence against other african americans.

I'm sure you can find empathetic connections within people of the same profession, neighborhood, wealth etc. I think it goes beyond "teams", similarities often breed an empathy so profound that it can dissociate some with other and different groups.
Tatsumi · 31-35, M
@Chaoshead Well, we might not disagree on the meaning--you disagree with Merriam Webster.

I don't have the wherewithal to form a cohesive argument against that, tonight. But, I disagree. Whatever "togetherness" you're speaking of is based on survival, nothing more, nothing less. Not actual empathy.
Chaoshead · 22-25, M
@Tatsumi I think I misspoke, I don't disagree with Merriam Webster or your opinion of what empathy is but rather we disagree on whether or not it can be experienced at the macro level of groups or only at the individual level.
I think we've been conditioned to do so.
Tatsumi · 31-35, M
Indeed it is.

 
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