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people who "feel bad" for other people are generally huge faggots
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:24 PM Author: Abnormal fortuitous meteor stop pretending to care as a roundabout way of patting yourself on the back (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48929940) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:24 PM Author: Chestnut old irish cottage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48929941) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:44 PM Author: Marvelous effete associate crackhouse i actually do care faggot because a shit soceity is shitty and i dont want to live in a shitty society (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48930031) |
Date: May 14th, 2025 12:24 PM Author: Vermilion Piazza do goyim have souls? serious question (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48929942) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:27 PM Author: avocado stimulating friendly grandma keepsake machete No just animal nefesch Next q |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:33 PM Author: Vermilion Piazza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48929975) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:37 PM Author: Transparent Soggy Brunch Half-breed didn’t you flunk out of the new school even though you’re jewish and a faggot? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48930001) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:27 PM Author: Transparent Soggy Brunch Half-breed Lmao @ jews (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48929948) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:28 PM Author: Cordovan excitant theatre therapy you seem like an empathetic person, surprising to see this thread from you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48929959) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:31 PM Author: Chestnut old irish cottage people who are actually "empathetic" are able to be discerning in their sympathy for others instead of being barely-sentient emotion-maxxing biological robots (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48929965) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:33 PM Author: Cordovan excitant theatre therapy we can say women here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48929973) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:36 PM Author: Abnormal fortuitous meteor if you genuinely care about something it is not hard to make a modest effort to do something about it. if you really care about starving dogs, the least you can do is toss some money to an animal shelter. or if you really care you can volunteer. etc.
if you "feel bad" but don't care enough to do anything about it, stop caring, because you aren't helping anything and it's pointless to ponder, much less publicly vocalize
this directly exposes stuff like the extremely online modern take of "man I feel bad for people with kids/without kids/people who grow up without X/grew up with Y because they will never experience [foo]/don't know the joy of [bar]" and blah blah blah fucking blah. it's just so transparently self-congratulation or schadenfreude and everyone needs to shut the fuck up |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:38 PM Author: Chestnut old irish cottage 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48930004) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:42 PM Author: Cordovan excitant theatre therapy well ok but there's a distinction between having empathy for something and virtue signaling/slacktivism.
i feel bad for palestinians getting blown up. i don't walk around pretending like i'm an activist but that empathy does inform my political stance.
i feel bad for dindus in africa blowing each other up. i don't do anything about it or lament about it openly because there's nothing i would do politically to change it and i spend my time/money on causes closer to me. but i still empathize enough to think "damn it sucks they're still hacking each other to death in the congo." |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:43 PM Author: Chestnut old irish cottage you're the exact kind of person he's criticizing with his post lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48930027) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:45 PM Author: Cordovan excitant theatre therapy how? i've never mentioned having empathy for didnus getting murked before and am only mentioning it in this context to illustrate my point, not to pretend i'm some bleeding heart. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48930034) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:47 PM Author: Chestnut old irish cottage you don't actually "care about" these people who you have never met before, will never meet, and have zero connection to whatsoever. that's the point that OP is trying to make. it's just a rationalization concocted by your unconscious brain to make you feel good about yourself
i've had this exact same conversation with you in the past on this board. you might even remember it |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:58 PM Author: Cordovan excitant theatre therapy i was just about to say, we've gone over this topic and a fundamentally disagree. but we've already gone around about it. i appreciate your pov and i'm not saying *you* don't feel that way. but i can tell you that *i* don't fell that way.
people can have empathy for *fictional* characters suffering. having empathy for *actual* human suffering isn't about me patting myself on the back. i feel completely neutral about it -- i stoically accept i can't address every tragedy in the world but i don't have believe it's not a tragedy. |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 1:06 PM Author: Chestnut old irish cottage fictional character is a good example. you don't actually care about the fictional character, dude. there's just an unconscious chemical process happening in your brain that makes you feel that way
think about how COMPLETELY INSANE it is for you to matter-of-factly state that you Genuinely Care About A Fictional Character That Literally Doesn't Even Exist. you don't, obviously. this is totally absurd. you would not sacrifice anything for the fictional character because of how much you care about them. how could you? they don't even fucking exist!
do you love and care about your mom? your girlfriend? your friends? even your internet poaster companions online? yeah, you do. you'd make sacrifices for them. you'd go to bat for them. you are willing to make conscious decisions involving conscious awareness of potential consequences to yourself as a result of caring for these people |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 1:13 PM Author: Cordovan excitant theatre therapy are you autistic? *ALL* feelings are an unconscious chemical process in your brain. people aren't computers operating completely rationally and deciding what is the most logical thing to care about.
yes, people *DO* care about fictional characters which can even manifest physically like blood pressuring rising when you're upset or tears flowing when you sad about a story. |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 1:23 PM Author: Chestnut old irish cottage no, there is a huge qualitative difference between crying because a fictional story triggers your sadness emotions (unconscious, meaningless) and taking vacation time from your job to drive to lex's hospital/house to help him after his accident because you really do care about him (conscious, meaningful)
yes, in a universe that appears to be completely materially deterministic, this is an article of faith: that humans actually have free will to choose to do the latter. but deep down inside, virtually every human being believes in this article of faith, and believes that this particular quality is what separates us from other animals or even AI |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 1:32 PM Author: Cordovan excitant theatre therapy of course there's a qualitative difference. but having empathy for things you won't address isn't the same as having zero empathy for them. we all have a finite resources (time, money, energy, etc) and we allocate them according to our priorities. the fact that no one has the ability to address everything they have a shred of empathy for doesn't mean they don't have empathy for it. see the second paragraph here: https://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&mc=30&forum_id=2#48930079
damn you have a good memory. is this goy superstar? lex tp and lynn conway tp and i are having ayce asian buffet tonight fyi. |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 1:36 PM Author: Chestnut old irish cottage yeah, it's me. have fun. ask lex about what i'm saying. he will begrudgingly agree with me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48930243) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 1:37 PM Author: Cordovan excitant theatre therapy no he won't lex is the most intelligent + empathetic ostensibly heterosexual man i've ever met by far. he's even itt strongly disagreeing with the premise. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48930248) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 1:46 PM Author: Chestnut old irish cottage yeah he will. have him read this whole comment chain, including this post: https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&mc=34&forum_id=2#48930090. what i am talking about is at the heart of the christian faith and he is a fervent christian who i believe actually understands christianity, unlike most christians
he's responding to something else in his comment below |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 1:53 PM Author: Cordovan excitant theatre therapy i will direct him to this subthread later and encourage him to respond. i anticipate that this will be a spirted convo enjoyed over endless sushi. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48930328) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:50 PM Author: Abnormal fortuitous meteor you're reading too much into the social justice aspect and not the "schadenfreude/self congratulation masked as 'caring'" which is the main point.
everyone online these days loves to remark about how they "feel bad" for (some group of people who made X different decision or grew up under Y circumstances)--clearly this is not any sort of actual empathy but just an extremely transparent way of saying "haha, loser! lol!". kids are the perfect example because it's basically impossible to earnestly discuss childhaving anywhere online that doesn't devolve into "I feel 'sorry' for the [other group], wow". |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:55 PM Author: Cordovan excitant theatre therapy no i just thought you were saying "people shouldn't have empathy for shit they can't/won't change" rather than expressing it for the reasons you're saying (even if it's just internal schadenfreude/self congratulation). i agree with you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48930065) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:59 PM Author: Abnormal fortuitous meteor I don't give a shit if your brain is some john nash jackson pollock hodgepodge of schizophrenia or a sherlock holmes mind palace, it's irrelevant to talk about what thoughts people should or shouldn't have. Only vocalization and expression of those thoughts are relevant to the outside world, and if someone is constantly vocalizing empathy but doing nothing to act on it they most likely are just patting themselves on the back. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48930083) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 1:02 PM Author: Cordovan excitant theatre therapy sure i'm just saying a person can still engage in this behavior internally. of course *you* don't care because you don't even realize it and it doesn't impact you. although i think people doing that stuff in their head are more likely to be smug and self-righteous about other shit too. although we're in the weeds now.
anyway i agree with what you're saying. i do a lot of charity and it's very frustrating to see people paying lip service to shit but doing absolutely nothing for any cause. |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 1:01 PM Author: Chestnut old irish cottage it's the exact same phenomenon lol. same unconscious process
no mom of 3 kids is sitting on the couch on her ipad smugly making a comment online about how she "feels bad" for childless women, while consciously snickering to herself about how better her own life is because she has kids. she really consciously believes that she "feels bad" for the childless woman, and is doing a good thing by pointing it out to others, even if her unconscious brain is doing this because it makes her unconsciously feel good about herself and socially signals to others that she's superior (for her benefit)
it's all unconscious. like 99% of human sentiment is unconscious self-serving rationalizations. if we actually had to consciously process our emotional sentiments we'd be basically unable to function in day to day life |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:35 PM Author: Fishy arousing step-uncle's house toilet seat ???
i genuinely feel bad (and happy!) for other people when appropriate
i am a biological white female and goy though so maybe that has something to do with it |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 12:50 PM Author: Disgusting ruby institution mediation there's an important distinction between feeling bad in silence and loudly sympathizing with someone. someone in the habit of the latter has an incentive (emotional if not practical) for the person they pity to stay in a pitiable state so that they can continue to seem superior. if feeling bad for someone means actually desiring the good for them and the improvement of their lots, the OP is dead wrong & possibly demonic. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48930051) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 1:01 PM Author: Swollen chartreuse hall marketing idea I feel bad for OP to think like this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48930095) |
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Date: May 14th, 2025 1:06 PM Author: Abnormal fortuitous meteor nigger (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5724886&forum_id=2#48930111) |