(October 25, 2016 at 7:43 pm)abaris Wrote:(October 25, 2016 at 7:39 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Contempt is a strange one. It seems more like an attitude than a feeling to me. Resentment is most definitely a feeling and, supposedly, contempt is too.
I can't put it differently. I sometimes feel contempt for people falling for rightwing messiah figures. They fuck themselves in the process, and that is tied to my second reason for contempt. Ignorance and to a lesser degree stupidity. Real stupidity is a mitigating factor in my opinion, since the faculties to know any better are lacking.
I feel pity for those incapable of ever knowing any better.
I feel pity for those who are that way through being willfully ignorant for having wills that motivate them that way.
If they're ignorant but not wilfully I try to help them. If I fail and everyone else fails too because they either become wilfully ignorant or it turns out they aren't intelligent enough and are incapable enough of ever knowing any better after all, I feel pity.
Contempt only comes into the mix if these people are toxic to me or my friends. I find contempt more personal than pity.
This is just for me personally.
