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re: Lack of Empathy- What is causing it?
Posted on 7/25/25 at 10:45 am to The Third Leg
Posted on 7/25/25 at 10:45 am to The Third Leg
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People become more pragmatic with age. You start to realize who deserves empathy and who deserves a kick in the arse.
I have to agree with this. The older I get the more I realize there's no saving some people. They'll continue to make bad decisions just as they always have throughout history despite the fact, at this time in history, they have more information and resources at their disposal than ever before. There shouldn't be any excuses, but it persists.
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Posted on 7/25/25 at 10:46 am to Our Friend Jim
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So I talked to my therapist
I've never been to a therapist in my life. Am I missing out on something?
Posted on 7/25/25 at 10:46 am to BabyTac
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The work from home epidemic that started with Covid has and will continue to ruin society.
You and John Barron blame WFH for everything, fricking clowns.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 10:48 am to GumboPot
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I've never been to a therapist in my life. Am I missing out on something?
Yes, you’re missing out on going to a therapist.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 10:48 am to Our Friend Jim
Did y'all discuss the therapist's multitude of problems during your session or just yours?
Just FYI, you'd be better off reading a book or confiding in a trustworthy friend over a beer.
Just FYI, you'd be better off reading a book or confiding in a trustworthy friend over a beer.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 10:48 am to WeareLATech
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LINK
Here's a good example. It's lack of awareness and then screaming because rules were created because of your lack of awareness.
Entitled yes!
Thank you for this. Affirming why I won't go on a cruise. Not because of the rule change, that is, but why they instituted the rule.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 10:50 am to Our Friend Jim
Don’t know, don’t care
lol! Be sure to take your pills too!
I was probably 28 before I ever heard the word empathy
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So I talked to my therapist
lol! Be sure to take your pills too!
I was probably 28 before I ever heard the word empathy
This post was edited on 7/25/25 at 11:06 am
Posted on 7/25/25 at 10:50 am to Our Friend Jim
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So I talked to my therapist about it
oh FFS.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 10:51 am to Our Friend Jim
People are lazy and its much easier to just generalize like everyone does with politics. No one wants to consider that a situation or person may be more complicated than the label they have been given.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 10:51 am to fightin tigers
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As entitlement goes up empathy goes down.
Winner winner, chicken dinner
Posted on 7/25/25 at 10:51 am to Our Friend Jim
I used to think that women were the much more empathetic gender. Some conversations I've had over the last 5 years have made me realize that's really not true.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:06 am to StrongOffer
Empathy hasn't decreased, nor has it become more unusual.
The situations where there is a social expectation of empathy, whether deserved or not, continue to expand. It is not the human default--after all, we all have very varying experiences, and not everything will resonate with everyone
There are a great many situations as well, where empathy might be appropriate, but where any individual doesn't have the context to feel empathy-- I can appreciate to a degree the experience of someone who lost a leg, but I have both-- I am not capable of empathy for them, because I have not walked the proverbial mile in their one shoe.
The situations where there is a social expectation of empathy, whether deserved or not, continue to expand. It is not the human default--after all, we all have very varying experiences, and not everything will resonate with everyone
There are a great many situations as well, where empathy might be appropriate, but where any individual doesn't have the context to feel empathy-- I can appreciate to a degree the experience of someone who lost a leg, but I have both-- I am not capable of empathy for them, because I have not walked the proverbial mile in their one shoe.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:07 am to StrongOffer
My therapist didn’t seem to give a shite.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:08 am to danilo
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lol! Be sure to take your pills too!
I’m not on meds, not that there is anything wrong with that. And what is the big problem that people like you have with others that try various ways to continually improve themselves? Therapy is a pretty valuable tool to get another perspective on things
This post was edited on 7/25/25 at 11:19 am
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:13 am to Our Friend Jim
The problem is that everyone knows too much about people they were never meant to know that much about or even interact with in any way. Social media has expanded our “circle” to include too many people and give us too much info about them. This leads to all sorts of issues, lack of empathy may be one of them for you.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:14 am to Our Friend Jim
You are the type that gets easily offended, aren't you?
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:15 am to Our Friend Jim
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Therapy is a pretty valuable tool to get another prospective on things
Never helped me at all. Stopped going.
*perspective
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:15 am to Our Friend Jim
You can’t spell “empathetic” without “pathetic”.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:16 am to DakIsNoLB
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Thank you for this. Affirming why I won't go on a cruise. Not because of the rule change, that is, but why they instituted the rule.
Just skip Carnival 3-5 day cruises out of anywhere and you won’t see the shite described in that article.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:18 am to 4Bagger
I'd confer with a friend instead of a therapist, but then I'd have one less friend 
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