She has a new fundraiser-essay, “The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel”. I’ve only seen a half hour of it so far, but it’s magnificent — she is discussing the importance of empathy in raising children and normal human interactions, and is exposing the horrible anti-empathy arguments of conservatives. It’s 2½ hours long, unfortunately, but man, it’s good and thorough. Everyone ought to watch it. Learn more about the anti-Christian sin of empathy, and how the Sermon on the Mount is a crime against Jesus.
It’s also a fundraiser for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. I was motivated to donate.
This video is really good. Do yourselves a favour. :-)
Elon Musk has this one covered.
According to Elon Musk it is wrong for the government to care about its citizens.
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and so on are all fundamental weaknesses according to the guy who has received tens of billions of dollars in US government subsidies.
The government shouldn’t waste time helping people, it should be helping oligarches like Elon Musk get more money and power.
Who are you going to believe, Elon Musk, the kook who almost everyone intensely dislikes for good reasons or Lindsay Ellis, who I never heard of.
@ ^ raven :Believe the evidence and the confirmed by multople sources verified facts and the logic that flows from solidly established premises and axioms.
I was struck recently by a speech from the UK version of “Professor T”. I’m not sure I agree with any of it, but it was interesting:
I’m sure I’ve never before and will never again hear compassion described as cold and hard, but anyway.
Mr. Musk should look at it a different way: instead of being a sign of empathy, all those things are defensive measures that protect him and his ilk from the guillotines.
When it comes to empathy Hannah Arendt makes an excellent point in her quote that :
Source (among other places) : https://information-warfare.com/the-death-of-empathy-a-warning-from-hannah-arendt-0d145d295a28
Dunno if that’s mentioned in the video linked in the OP here (2 and half hours!?) which I haven’t yet seen but think that’s worth noting especially now given the rise of the hateful unempathic side of politics and human nature generally.
@Nemo
“Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion” by Paul Bloom? New York Post Best Book of 2016? Yeah, the guy who wrote it is an a-hole extraordinaire. No wonder it was that conservative rag’s (New York Post) best book.
Also, things that were pushed on Amazon after I looked at the book:
The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning
Paul Bloom
(talk about Mother Theresa’s outlook on suffering. You can’t have meaningful life or be saved without suffering, therefore suffering is good and alleviating suffering is bad. Damn.)
Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion
Allie Beth Stuckey
(Another book pushed by conservatives. It’s basically “you’re tricking us, we’re only tolerating you, beware ‘The day of hempen rope’ when we stop tolerating you and start getting rid of you, progressives!”)
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt
(Not as bad as others, but still tries to reach common ground between liberals and conservatives. By forcing everyone to submit into something he calls “human hives”. Yikes!)
The Sin of Empathy: Compassion and Its Counterfeits
Joe Rigney
(Oh dear. Even worse Paul Bloom than Paul Bloom. Talk about conservative and selfish manifesto. Again with “Suffering strengthens character” bullshit)
Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
Paul Bloom
(This one is just yuck, IMHO.)