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Let me share one of my theories with you too, when you go into the ring swinging wildly and with eyes closed, your punches are going to miss. The whol...
February 23, 2019 at 12:09
I don't really see it but I will reflect on whether I think your interpretation is reasonable or not. I always get called out for using the word ignor...
February 23, 2019 at 04:19
Your post comes off as very condescending, I don't mind arguing with people but in my experience, it's not very productive discuss things with people ...
February 22, 2019 at 13:09
Well, I won't say you're wrong, it may be the case that expectations and dreams are the same thing for you. I might dream of being extremely rich but ...
February 22, 2019 at 12:46
I can give my answers but it's really all a matter of interpretation. Personally, I see freedom as more of an intellectual thing. It's about being abl...
February 22, 2019 at 12:18
Freedom is both an interpretation as a concept and a feeling but the conditions and nature of each are different. Freedom as a concept means defining ...
February 22, 2019 at 10:35
I am not presenting criticism in this thread towards empathy as a motivator. If you say the world would be a worse place without empathy, I would not ...
February 22, 2019 at 10:25
Dreams aren't what's harmful, expectations are harmful. Expectations can ruin people. Balancing your expectations isn't easy, you don't want to expect...
February 22, 2019 at 08:25
I hope you haven't forgotten I am talking about empathy as a tool for understanding people. Half the people in this thread either forgot or never both...
February 22, 2019 at 07:59
This is so stupid, hurts my eyes to read. Groups are comprised of individuals, who are not just black men being harassed by police officers. You are c...
February 22, 2019 at 05:42
Are you serious...? You haven't even understood that you've spent most of your time in this thread arguing against positions I don't have. What a donk...
February 22, 2019 at 03:31
I don't think obedience entails submission, I think obedience can come out of self-interest, pragmatism, there can be limits to it (aka you aren't sub...
February 22, 2019 at 02:14
You're the one talking about submission to traffic light rules, you're going to ignore the pragmatic aspect? I didn't think we were talking about anyt...
February 22, 2019 at 00:15
I think we have a moral obligation as an intelligent species to end the suffering of the other animals which lack the capacity.
February 21, 2019 at 16:12
I don't think that's enough because life would still remain on Earth. Perhaps evolution has led to this moment? Earth created life capable of destroyi...
February 21, 2019 at 15:47
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February 21, 2019 at 15:24
No.
February 21, 2019 at 15:06
Does answering your questions lead somewhere? Doesn't appear that way. I probably missed some good ones but I find this funny, perhaps I have a bad se...
February 21, 2019 at 14:56
Conventionally? You think you follow convention, do you? Do I really need to explain to you that I don't believe in magical powers that people to LITE...
February 21, 2019 at 14:37
Although talking to you is clearly not going to produce any intellectually stimulating or informative discussions, there is a comedy to you that keeps...
February 21, 2019 at 14:07
Sexism is a category of many things all and which things are defined by interpretation, which things fit into this category is determined by interpret...
February 21, 2019 at 12:33
Enough of this... Empathy allows you to understand the perspectives of others? By taking a few select characteristics as a framework and using your im...
February 21, 2019 at 09:51
Why spouting? Are you serious? Anyway, I mean the issue here is that I don't know how much you've read of what I've written in this thread and how muc...
February 20, 2019 at 14:59
.... You don't need imagination to understand concepts. Even robots can read human expressions and label them, many of them are universal across human...
February 20, 2019 at 06:24
Okay but I don't have an expectation of empathy and I just said that. So rather than feeling their pain, we see their pain and sad for them and want t...
February 20, 2019 at 05:30
Sorry, what do you think is misinformed? You said that empathy allows us to see "pain" in others and see that pain in ourselves, we feel their pain. S...
February 20, 2019 at 04:22
I am discussing empathy as a tool for understanding people, you talk like you're disagreeing with me but it doesn't seem like you are. Provided you ar...
February 20, 2019 at 02:54
If you have to use empathy then I agree but I don't think you do. If you don't understand then ask more questions and try to understand but not by usi...
February 20, 2019 at 02:21
I think you're correct that psychologists need to avoid appearing judgement or analytic, I agree that displays or attempts at empathy are good for dis...
February 20, 2019 at 01:05
I agree.
February 20, 2019 at 00:47
Good question. I'd like at least a plausible explanation as to why you think empathy would overcome the barriers I listed or perhaps some fairly condu...
February 19, 2019 at 23:32
So answer to your question is, what types of things are people trying to use empathy to understand. We may as well use this quote as a reference... So...
February 19, 2019 at 15:35
.... Me neither and I didn't say it did.
February 19, 2019 at 14:45
I don't think one ought to try to become happy. Happiness is a product of things you should want. 1. Safety/Security 2. Satisfaction 3. Contentment 4....
February 19, 2019 at 14:21
Well, I have provided examples as I hoped they would help others understand my views. I have also provided reasons for why I think empathy is a worthl...
February 19, 2019 at 14:16
I think intellectually you can appreciate that, for instance, nobody wants to be ugly. You can understand that an ugly person will want to try to impr...
February 19, 2019 at 13:49
I agree. Theorise definition: To formulate theories or a theory; speculate. I think I am being fairly unambiguous in talking about non-mathematical, n...
February 19, 2019 at 13:31
I don't think that inter-human understanding hasn't improved. Through technology, anthropology, psychology, biology, neurology, sociology, improved co...
February 19, 2019 at 13:19
I am not a solipsist as a result of empathy, it's an epistemological question. I don't really want to go into it here. In some ways it isn't and in so...
February 19, 2019 at 13:00
I don't agree with everything you said but I'm not criticising empathy as a motivator. Many good things come from empathy as a motivator and I think i...
February 19, 2019 at 08:26
If you find it entertaining then why should I criticise? If I wanted to learn, for instance, what it's like to be a soldier in war. I could read up on...
February 19, 2019 at 00:21
This is the kind of empathy that I am criticising, you aren't becoming less self-centred via imagining yourself in others' situations you're just pret...
February 18, 2019 at 22:18
Empathy promises unrealistic results - even the idea of using it face-to-face implies intuitively understanding things you have no means to understand...
February 18, 2019 at 21:55
What I am describing is not sympathy and doesn't even necessarily entail sympathy. Sympathy does not involve imagination, it involves feeling badly to...
February 18, 2019 at 13:49
If it did or didn't. whether your premise is true or not, it is not something you will understand without hard work, evidence and lots of research. Th...
February 18, 2019 at 09:42
https://www.ibtimes.co.in/indians-most-materialistic-after-the-chinese-report-530795 It is a dangerous thing to use theories and philosophies to know ...
February 18, 2019 at 09:22
Knowledge is good but we are still merely making educated guesses. Interpretation, personality, experience and many other factors will impact an indiv...
February 18, 2019 at 07:33
What is unearned income? And unprofitable from who's perspective?
February 18, 2019 at 02:54
No, you are not submitting. That's like saying if I play chess and follow the rules, then I am submitting to them. It's actually a really dumb way to ...
February 18, 2019 at 01:43
How do you define "profitable"?
February 18, 2019 at 00:33