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erronis

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4. I'll believe that any empathetic human can be turned into a monster if their lives depend on it.

Reply to StrictlyRockers (Original post)

Wed Oct 29, 2025, 07:42 PM

Oct 29

That's not a quote - just my totally non-psy-professional opinion.

Good people will make the right decisions to help other people when the opportunity is presented.

But when the evil is dripped slowly, slowly and normalized by society, it seems easier to ignore the evil at first, accept, and then participate.

I hope I don't have to experience this personally, but it seems very close.

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"Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy." [View all] StrictlyRockers Oct 29 OP

precisely true normalynn Oct 29 #1

Musk is a profoundly fucked up human, as is Trump, Miller, Vought, Johnson, Tuberville, Comer, etc. Blues Heron Oct 29 #2

And compassion. Clouds Passing Oct 29 #3

I'll believe that any empathetic human can be turned into a monster if their lives depend on it. erronis Oct 29 #4

If Schopenhauer's observations are correct, compassion is the basis of morality pat_k Oct 29 #5

I think that evil is much larger than the absence of empathy. milestogo Oct 29 #6

Like this guy...? Grins Oct 29 #7

From 65 years ago, Codifer Oct 29 #8

Trump could shoot someone on 5th avenue. Initech Oct 29 #9

Lack of empathy may be a requisite for evil, but not the definition of it Martin Eden Oct 30 #10

Lack of empathy was praised by Kirk too. Jbraybarten Oct 30 #11

There's lack of empathy & compassionate, plus Active Cruelty electric_blue68 Oct 30 #12