[ SECRET POST #3795 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3795 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

For reference, you imply that I am the party struggling with empathy twice in your original comment, in lines 2 & 3 of the first paragraph, and as the entire point of the second paragraph. But no matter.

"That's the thing. Reflection and empathy doesn't mean people will suddenly be sensitive and good."

I'm not sure at what point I said anyone should be sensitive or good. I certainly am not being sensitive or good by starting or continuing this argument. I don't think that has anything to do with the matter at hand, which is that I think that it's being able to understand why someone is sad over a celebrity death is a matter of basic empathy, and making a secret about not getting that (with no other content) just makes you seem lacking in that skill.

"It's not a matter of them not being able to understand things are the same, it's a matter of things not being the same to them."

If someone suggested to me that a celebrity dying was the se as a pet dying I wpuld say they were an idiot. But ignoring your terrible analogy, the rest of what you said up there is basically proving my point. Empathy is a skill that involves imagination and extrapolation, and while on some cases it can be complicated, in this case it is not. It is very, very somple. Art evokes emotions. Celebrities evoke emotions (look up the psychology of idol admiration if you don't believe me). Therefore, an admired celebrity whose art was popular is going to have people feeling emotional. It's not rocket science.

It's one thing to not care that other people are sad. I can get behind that. But if someone is actually incapable of making the imaginative leap that allows them to understand why a hypothetical person might be sad, and the only similar situation they can think of is a pet dying, then yeah I am gonna feel justified in saying that that person is experiencing a basic empathy disconnect in that situation.