(June 12, 2025 at 12:05 pm)Ahriman Wrote:(June 12, 2025 at 10:02 am)Paleophyte Wrote: I don't see why it's particularly surprising to you. Empathy is an evolved behavior in a social species, and as such it doesn't tend to cover the out-group much. I'm willing to bet that if I showed up at your church and started expounding on the differences between Darwinian Evolution and Punctuated Equilibrium that I'd get the cold shoulder. Empathy has its limits and if you go beyond social norms you get less of it.
That hasn't been my experience. I'm an absolute miscreant in real life and people still treat me fairly.
Either they're suckers for punishment or you aren't as much of a miscreant as you think. Possibly both.
