Jews don't get a pass from me either.

[Belacqua]

But in terms of logic, which if you would read my prior post, makes no logical sense.

On another thread we were talking about empathy, and it got me to thinking. (I was at the supermarket and needed something to think about.)

Maybe Golden Rule type empathy isn't enough. Like "I don't want to get poked in the eye so I won't poke you in the eye" doesn't actually require that I know anything about your feeling. It only needs me to know MY feeling, and then have the self-discipline not to do that thing. 

Real empathy might mean that we understand something of that other person's lifeworld, even if it is unlike our own. Then it's likely that their choices would be revealed as extremely logical. At that point it might be less easy to pass judgment.

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It is a matter to me, our species willing to question social norms and be willing to give up on bad data.

Have you read anything by the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips? He questions the social norm that logic is important in life. Have you taken the time to question this one?