RE: Empathy Quotient
May 23, 2018 at 12:37 am
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2018 at 12:42 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(May 23, 2018 at 12:19 am)Little lunch Wrote: I also don't think he's ever said that empathy brings about more immorality than non-empathy in general.
Well... from the intro to his book 'Against Empathy':
Paul Bloom Wrote:Empathy has its merits. It can be a great source of pleasure, involved in art and fiction and sports, and it can be a valuable aspect of intimate relationships. And it can sometimes spark us to do good. But on the whole, it's a poor moral guide. It grounds foolish judgments and often motivates indifference and cruelty. It can lead to irrational and unfair political decisions, it can corrode certain important relationships, such as between a doctor and a patient, and make us worse at being friends, parents, husbands, and wives. I am against empathy, and one of the goals of this book is to persuade you to be against empathy too.
My bold.
Clearer now?
