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From my friend Olivier....a Frenchman living in the US.
“It’s not real until it becomes personal."
"No, that’s the reaction when you don’t have empathy. Like the mayor in Jaws (“Martin, my kid was on that beach too!”)."
“It’s not real until it becomes personal."
"No, that’s the reaction when you don’t have empathy. Like the mayor in Jaws (“Martin, my kid was on that beach too!”)."
If you have empathy, it is real whether it affects you personally or not. That's how white people come to care about the Black Lives Matter movement, and why hetero people fight for LGBTQ civil rights, and why many of us wear masks and avoid physical contact even though we're
fairly sure that we would survive COVID. If you don't care what happens to people you don't know, merely because you don't know them, that's a bad sign, and you might be a sociopath.
That's how we get massive beach parties while the 150,000th family buries a loved one lost to
That's how we get massive beach parties while the 150,000th family buries a loved one lost to
COVID. That's how we turn a blind eye to government contractors engaging in child abuse and child trafficking in plain sight. That's how Germany, 80 some years ago, managed to exterminate 7 million Jews without anyone really noticing or caring. It's all the same thing.
The absence of empathy in a society always leads to attrocities.
In closing, it concerns me greatly that so many people can't seem to give a shit about the safety and pain of others unless it affects them personally. If you only care about family and friends, that's a problem.
In closing, it concerns me greatly that so many people can't seem to give a shit about the safety and pain of others unless it affects them personally. If you only care about family and friends, that's a problem.
