You know who I blame? Jesus. Going round teaching people to care about one another regardless of creed and colour. His toxic empathy has really ruined Christianity.
People like this are eating the same glue that Elon does.
Anyone thinking that empathy is a liability rather than an advantage are fucking stupid.
Empathy is a liability. It’s also what makes human connection and love possible.
People who lack empathy are the broken ones.
I consider empathy to be one of our greatest strengths, helping eachother creates a strong society, lack of empathy just fractures society.
And human connection is what gives humans their advantage, so we come full circle.
I think I found the author.
Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials:
“In my work with the defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”