(January 27, 2016 at 12:14 pm)Cecelia Wrote: Empathy is exactly right. How one treats others is what we judge morality on.Again empathy is a joke. It can be manupliated like any other form of government propaganda.
For instance what do you say about a God who order (whole bible now) 10s of thousands of babies to be slaughtered?
Bad deity right?
Now what do you say about a society that has over seen the death of almost 1.5 billion babies?
http://www.numberofabortions.com/
Bottom line babies die.
Propaganda relables aborted babies and uses the Latin word for them and they have their human rights stripped away. all of this in a change of word. Seems trivial does it not?
But you show 'empathy' for one, and no empathy for the other, even though a BILLION More people were slaughtered before they even had a chance to grow up.
How? You've been trained to empathize with one group of babies because they meet what society trivially sets as it's thresh hold/tolerance for infanticide while the other group no matter how many die, and no matter how horridly they die have not met that threshold.. but again bottom line the effect is the same a baby's life ends.
So again, if you were born in Nazi Germany and taught not to have empthy for the jews, or in the 1700's in America and taught not to have empathy for slaves what in your mind makes you think you would just develop empathy for them then? After all you seem to have no issue taking cues from pop morality when it says have no empathy for the unborn, or no empathy for anyone deemed a terrorist? Those labels we use to dehumanize the unborn/partially born are also successfully used on other people all the time. So again Empathy is a joke/false sense of absolute/foundational morality.
What else you got?