Is there a general decline in empathy?
In your opinion of course, or has there been research on this?
vetguy1991 · 56-60, M
@V00dooLovesTheMoon me too.
Frostcloud · F
i used to be a hardcore believer that empathy was going up until covid happened, which seemed to have divided this country into people who grew in empathy, and people who wanted everyone who's not like them dead or shipped away
but progress is almost never linear. i still think humanity grows to be better and better with each generation. racism and sexism is still alive and well, but it's not the same as it was a hundred years ago. i think if humanity doesn't blow up the earth then a hundred years from now we will be even better too 🙂↕
but progress is almost never linear. i still think humanity grows to be better and better with each generation. racism and sexism is still alive and well, but it's not the same as it was a hundred years ago. i think if humanity doesn't blow up the earth then a hundred years from now we will be even better too 🙂↕
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Frostcloud · F
@InterdimensionalSideEye i very much think things are going to get worse before they get better ngl. but if we make it out alive we will get better c:
@Frostcloud I like your optimism…
@Frostcloud you think you're a good person but you supported policies that greatly damaged our youth and economy
I would actually call you psychopathic in your entiltled lack of awareness of that and your performative virtue signalling
I would actually call you psychopathic in your entiltled lack of awareness of that and your performative virtue signalling
WanderingHelplessly · 51-55, M
@WanderingHelplessly at a brief glance I see there is a lot of research going into this.
WanderingHelplessly · 51-55, M
@InterdimensionalSideEye Just looked it up, and psychologists and sociologists are saying there is a decline in empathy and a rise in narcissism. I see it on this site a lot.
Here are a few studies I found: https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(23)00763-5/fulltext
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39172395/
Here are a few studies I found: https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(23)00763-5/fulltext
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39172395/
@WanderingHelplessly thank you…on my way.
@PlatonicSquirelFriends yeah
@swirlie how so?
swirlie · 31-35, F
@InterdimensionalSideEye
I was born and raised on a vegetable marketing farm along the north side of the 49th Parallel about 20 miles from the Canada/US border crossing at Detroit.
The vast majority of our daily customers dropping in to our retail outlet were American tourists, even some who were not exactly tourists but who'd jumped across the border for an hour in their car with family in tow to come to our place to buy stuff freshly harvested out of the soil that very day.
Our American customers were not at all savvy in their general demeanor and in fact, usually presented themselves as people who lived in a very cloistered society wherever it was that they came from, almost appearing as if they didn't exactly get out too much and that a one hour trip in the car for them into Canada was for them, on par with a transatlantic voyage to some faraway place with a strange sounding name. Where they were typically coming from, I could see out my bedroom window as I looked south across Lake Erie into the USA on a nice clear day.
If I could see their city or town from my bedroom window, they could probably see me walking around in my pajamas with my bedroom drapes open is what my Dad always use to tell me. That's how close our American customer-base was located south of the border.
That is not a bad thing looked and felt out of their element when they'd come to our farm, but it was an unusual thing for me to experience. Unusual in that what was considered 'normal' for me, often turned out to be something new and exciting for our American customers, even when it came to basic vegetables you could buy in a store.
I cannot tell you how many Americans were absolutely blown away from learning that peppers come in several different colors, not just green.... or that carrots come in different sizes and no... miniature carrots are not baby carrots that were taken away from their mother as we exploited her carrot family in the night.
I only say that now because that is what most Americans would tell me as I served them at the counter. At first I thought they were joking because I'd never heard a Canadian ever say that to me before, until I realized any American who said that to me was really quite aggressively serious, to the point where someone would have to explain the difference to them between specifically planted carrot varieties and pepper varieties.
That is where one becomes VERY sympathetic toward Americans, let alone empathetic for their acute lack of awareness about stuff that most people around the world otherwise take for granted. 🇨🇦
I was born and raised on a vegetable marketing farm along the north side of the 49th Parallel about 20 miles from the Canada/US border crossing at Detroit.
The vast majority of our daily customers dropping in to our retail outlet were American tourists, even some who were not exactly tourists but who'd jumped across the border for an hour in their car with family in tow to come to our place to buy stuff freshly harvested out of the soil that very day.
Our American customers were not at all savvy in their general demeanor and in fact, usually presented themselves as people who lived in a very cloistered society wherever it was that they came from, almost appearing as if they didn't exactly get out too much and that a one hour trip in the car for them into Canada was for them, on par with a transatlantic voyage to some faraway place with a strange sounding name. Where they were typically coming from, I could see out my bedroom window as I looked south across Lake Erie into the USA on a nice clear day.
If I could see their city or town from my bedroom window, they could probably see me walking around in my pajamas with my bedroom drapes open is what my Dad always use to tell me. That's how close our American customer-base was located south of the border.
That is not a bad thing looked and felt out of their element when they'd come to our farm, but it was an unusual thing for me to experience. Unusual in that what was considered 'normal' for me, often turned out to be something new and exciting for our American customers, even when it came to basic vegetables you could buy in a store.
I cannot tell you how many Americans were absolutely blown away from learning that peppers come in several different colors, not just green.... or that carrots come in different sizes and no... miniature carrots are not baby carrots that were taken away from their mother as we exploited her carrot family in the night.
I only say that now because that is what most Americans would tell me as I served them at the counter. At first I thought they were joking because I'd never heard a Canadian ever say that to me before, until I realized any American who said that to me was really quite aggressively serious, to the point where someone would have to explain the difference to them between specifically planted carrot varieties and pepper varieties.
That is where one becomes VERY sympathetic toward Americans, let alone empathetic for their acute lack of awareness about stuff that most people around the world otherwise take for granted. 🇨🇦
jademonkey19 · 41-45, T
I would definitely agree that there has been a decline in empathy. It feels as if people have forgotten how to love each other; we aren't meant to live isolated the way we do.
As much as I've enjoyed it, I think the internet was a terrible idea--in terms of the impact it's had on us socially.
As much as I've enjoyed it, I think the internet was a terrible idea--in terms of the impact it's had on us socially.
SpectralMourning · 46-50, M
@SpectralMourning I feel the same.
greensnacks · F
I honestly don't know. I do think there is more focus and encouragement about individualism, which might contribute to focus more on the self rather than communities which technically requires empathy and collaboration. So maybe. But then I see increase in empathy for animals than day 10 years ago, so I'm conflicted.
Maybe it's the type of empathy that fluctuate their parameters.
Maybe it's the type of empathy that fluctuate their parameters.
@greensnacks good answer!
ElyssTTTrucks · 100+, M
@ElyssTTTrucks seems you’re correct. And all sorts of mental problems too.
@EldritchFox I’m sorry you had experience of that.
@InterdimensionalSideEye I don't think I'm alone in that
ninalanyon · 70-79, T
@ninalanyon that’s refreshing to hear!❤
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
@Convivial no offense, but that is a terrible excuse.
alongalone · M
Justmeraeagain · 56-60, F
@Justmeraeagain no. Isn’t. Imagine the effects of ai in a few years.
Justmeraeagain · 56-60, F
@InterdimensionalSideEye I see some of the effects with the college kids now and it's pretty scary to me.
samueltyler2 · 80-89, M
SumKindaMunster · 56-60, M
@SumKindaMunster I think it’s the case yes.
@SumKindaMunster however….there seems to be a lot more awareness of issues.
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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@CrazyMusicLover increase if coddling. Indeed.
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