3 Jul 2022 3:23 pm
Empathy.Neo » 03 Jul 2022, 2:21 pm » wrote: ↑ We base our understanding and grant recognition of rights to fellow human beings as persons created in the image of God. Inalienable rights granted by the creator. Without that recognition do people have Inalienable rights? Is there an agnostic reason competing humans have to respect one another?
You hurt yourself or have something precious stolen, you begin to realize that same hurt/suffering affects others.
What people choose to do with that information is tempered by their conscience.
Same thing with joy and esteem. You experience it for yourself and you can dole it out to others in some way.
This is basically built into our social structure. Judges sense remorse or lack thereof in sentencing, for example.
Remorse can be a perfect indicator of empathy.
I happen to agree with the saying:
The opposite of love is not hate. It's indifference.
IOW complete lack of empathy.
Please seat yourself.
I like the very things you hate.
I like the very things you hate.