Empathy is something I can't even help feeling even if it did have to be deserved.
I don't think anything needs to be deserved. Not even respect, I think respect can only be lost.
Trust needs to be earned, but that's different to deserve. It's unwise to trust someone you don't know yet, they need to earn it in the sense that they need to show they're trustworthy because you don't know them yet -- it's not like they don't deserve it yet.
So I'm just saying, I don't think anything really is deserved. No one deserves anything -- but some things definitely should encouraged with praise and people should be held accountable for their actions.
Fuck retributivism, consequentialism FTW.
I don't think anything needs to be deserved. Not even respect, I think respect can only be lost.
Trust needs to be earned, but that's different to deserve. It's unwise to trust someone you don't know yet, they need to earn it in the sense that they need to show they're trustworthy because you don't know them yet -- it's not like they don't deserve it yet.
So I'm just saying, I don't think anything really is deserved. No one deserves anything -- but some things definitely should encouraged with praise and people should be held accountable for their actions.
Fuck retributivism, consequentialism FTW.