re: Lack of Empathy- What is causing it?

Who the F cares?

When you realize no amount of empathy will ever be enough.

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Too much of this board has outright disdain for people who are

Gay
Educated
Trans
Liberal

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No, most people have a disdain for people who think they are special, like the groups you just mentioned.

If they at least pretended to be normal and kept lives private like most of us do, no one would give a frick who they slept with or what they believed.


LBGTQ is purely a political delineation, it deserves pushback. Normal gay people dont need that kind of "collectivism."

I hear you. Just look at all the first responses here purporting to agree with you but immediately blaming someone else for it.

Michael Jackson said it best: “I’m starting with the man in the mirror.”

There is a fine line between being empathetic and enabling.

Some people deserve empathy and others deserve a lesson.

It’s okay for people to have empathy but it’s okay to mind their own fricking business

Some people hate it but whenever I can I pull over for a funeral procession. I think its a great way of showing compassion for someone (and their family) who you likely never met but have enough empathy to briefly stop your day and pay respects.

Try being a counselor. It’s becoming harder everyday not to kick into R. Lee Ermey mode (from the Geico commercial).

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I'm 31 years old, and I think the generational gap between my parents and I is less than it is for me and someone who is 17 today. I grew up with dial-up internet, calling on landlines, thinking you were living big if you had basic cable, etc.

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If you’re only 31, you didn’t likely experience much of that past the age of like 5. MySpace was launched when you were in middle school. You were maybe a freshman in high school when the iPhone came out. And very few people didn’t have basic cable most of your life. The bigger generational gap IMO is people born in the early to mid 80s and those born in the mid to late 90s. People in the former likely didn’t even have a home computer, cell phone didn’t become something most everyone had until they were high school or college age, social media didn’t exist until college or later, etc. The tech boom really took off to crazy levels in the 2000s. You were born in ~1994 so you experienced most of it as a kid. People in your general age group probably can’t remember ever not having most of the same basic stuff we all have now.

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If you’re only 31, you didn’t likely experience much of that past the age of like 5. MySpace was launched when you were in middle school. You were maybe a freshman in high school when the iPhone came out. And very few people didn’t have basic cable most of your life. The bigger generational gap IMO is people born in the early to mid 80s and those born in the mid to late 90s.

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I was born late 80s, my little brother was born mid 90s. The gap in our 7 years is huge. I remember before internet was a thing, he doesn’t know life without it. I played outside everyday after school, he played video games. Now that I’m nearing 40 and he’s in his 30s, we have a lot more in common, but it took him getting married, having a family and realizing the world isn’t perfect for him to come around