(March 9, 2020 at 2:54 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The batshit arguments and condescension are just minor side effects of a person discounting shared attributes of humanity on account of the other person not believing in pixies, or the right pixies. The full effect of that beyond the boards is a great deal worse.
Anywho, it's probably not accurate to state that empathy defines right and wrong. Empathy is recognition. Empathy tells us that we're looking at something meaningful to us, a situation with moral import, but it doesn't tell us why that situation has moral import to recognize. Approached from another angle, failures of empathy - the lack of empathy in an individual will not certify that the thing apprehended is not wrong.
Empathy as the right or wrong-making property is actually the same moral assertion as god defining right and wrong. Natural subjectivism as opposed to supernatural subjectivism.
I think that me feeling bad if I hurt someone is because I can put myself in their position. I think it is kind of telling that its bad. I know its more complex than that but I do think it plays a role.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.