Deconversion and some doubts

[downbeatplumb]

Empathy is a pretty finicky son of a bitch, it’s much easier to feel it for the homeless you rarely have to deal with, than when they’re stinking up your streets. More easier to feel towards those that look like us,  and have things in common with, than with those not like us. You show white people a video of a black person getting a needle, they feel less empathy than if it were injected into black skin, and vice versa.

Stealing your wallet, far more digestible then stealing my sisters purse.

So the idea that stealing your wallet damages my biological empathy, is perhaps not as true as you hope it would be.

The white person feeling less for a black person is because they find it harder to empathise with them.
The further a person or animal is from us the less we have in common and the more difficult it is to put ourselves in their position. Its why we feel more a cat being tormented than an alligator in a similar position.

So empathy DOES indeed cover it. And explains it better than magic whatever you believe in.