What is this thread all about?
Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
Does not need to be Q related.
Emphaty good forced emphaty not.Do think alot of "organisation's" use forced emphaty to let us feel bad. What do you think ?
Are you referring to charities as organizations?
You can't force empathy, either you have it, or you don't.You can teach it and model it, raising a child to be kind, for instance, by asking them how they would feel if someone did that to them, etc. I think the word sympathy is better, wanting to gain sympathy for a cause, a condition, etc. Of course I have sympathy for all the people suffering hunger and homelessness, I have sympathy for an addict who cannot get well, I honestly do feel sorry for them. Empathy is being able to relate, sympathy means you may not relate, but you feel bad, like, "oh that's a shame." Empathy requires something intuitive, like realizing someone is tired without them telling you they are, and then having the emotional intelligence to not add to their burden, or simply lending a hand and offering help. Watching a woman in labor and knowing how that feels. Doing to others as you would have them do to you is the beginning of empathy. Have you ever met someone who has none? It's chilling. As far as manipulating a narrative to get a certain response of sympathy from someone, that is done a lot, to get people to donate, say, for hurricane relief, shelter animals, etc.. the downside of that is pity, because pity changes the power dynamic, which makes people in bad situations wallow in it, instead of giving them strength to endure and have victory over their condition. If I lost my home in a storm, I don't need your pity, I need encouragement to live to fight another day. Some people have a natural generosity of spirit, some do not. I don't think you can force that.
Sympathy is indeed a better word.Pitty is a slippery slope.Thanks i am learning.You got me thinking.
I am not even sure what a forced empathy is, but it sounds like where you are supposed to feel bad for something someone experienced even though you dont really feel bad. If thats the case, its not empathy, its just a charade.
Being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes is very powerful. It can even make you go insane if you cannot do it in moderation. However, if you can do it in moderation, it will help you become a better person.
Trying to say(english not my first language).Example some people getting asylum and really need it but the argumuntations used for that person are used for "every one" .
Blanket guilt. They make you feel bad for being born there in order for you to accept others to come in and eventually take it over.
Blanked quilt could express what i was trying to say. "They make you feel bad for being born there in order for you to accept others to come in and eventually take it over." cant relate to that.But they are trying to destroy country's with emigrants that dont want to learn norms and values of the country the flee to. Mean each case has to be judged ,something like the greencard system.(not with democrats in control). Difficult subject.