• yeahiknow3@lemmings.world
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      22 hours ago

      I think my argument is fairly solid. Your demand for pity pretty much requires me to treat them like helpless animals.

      I’m open to change my mind on this.

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        21 hours ago

        It’s not pity. It’s empathy. It’s what you lack.

        It’s the ability to say, if this were me this would suck. If this were me I would be devastated and even though the consequences are of my own making I wouldn’t mind if someone lent me a hand.

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          22 hours ago

          Either they’re moral agents, in which case they’re evil, or they’re just animals.

          If they’re evil we should not be empathetic.

          If they’re mere animals, we should be empathetic.

          You want the latter, right?

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              21 hours ago

              These “people” are trying to destroy the planet, where I live, and you’re upset that in their greedy rapacious behavior they’ve caused their own houses to flood… And I’m not sufficiently empathetic to them for doing that? They’re trying to kill me. These are my mortal enemies! What empathy do you think these monsters deserve?

              Unless of course they’re helpless animals, like bears following their instincts.

              It’s like a rapist who accidentally shoots himself in the dick instead of his victim and then you chastise us that we’re not empathetic to the rapist.

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                  21 hours ago

                  I don’t. But the vast majority of these people are the perpetrators of this catastrophe, not its victims.

                  Again, you’re asking me to feel empathy for a rapist who has accidentally shot himself in the dick. Why?

                  I already said I feel bad for the children and the animals.

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              21 hours ago

              Humans can be blamed for doing evil things. These people eat meat. They torture billions of innocent fellow creatures to death annually to satiate their gluttony causing global warming which has now washed away their dwellings. What is the correct response from me? You want me to feel bad?