Because our culture has spent the past 250 years attempting to minimize the value of empathy.
That’s something that always drives me crazy about the “value of the atomic family” schtick in some conservative circles. On the one hand, they want a return to the atomic family. On the other, they’re still full steam ahead on individualism and keeping empathy out of decision processes.
Meanwhile, other family-based cultures are messy, more “molecular family” than the “traditional” atomic family, because the culture is based on empathy and shame/honor. Without empathy, leadership always dehumanizes the ones it is supposed to serve.
Empathy is socialist dontcha know?
We’re too busy importing the us culture to notice rampant individualism does not make a good society to love in.
Crazy thing is, up until 2024, Canada was proud to be socialist. But you’re right; a LOT of the US culture slops across the border. Happened during the McCarthy years too.
Crazy thing is, up until 2024, Canada was proud to be socialist.
Huh? Canada has not been socialist at any time I can remember.
On one hand, we’re quite socialist compared to the states. On the other hand, I think the last time we as a country could be said to be proud of what socialist things we do have is near a century ago.
I mean, that’s our biggest issue with dealing with conservatives. It’s all bullshit culture war crap coming from down south.
The men are the individuals that do what they want, the women are the family members that do the hard stuff in the house.
It really should be at or near the top of the list of requirements IMO
I care about it a great deal.
But if you want a hypothesis for your question…
I think its because, as primates, we feel a desire to punish our enemies. It an emotional impulse, and therefore gets a power buff in its influence over our beliefs compared to being reasonable and fostering understanding. The empathetic leader is perceived to lack in their capabilities for delivering punishment.
Control is why we (the society) are discouraged from developing the skills to be reasonable in the first place.
Because not giving a damn bubbled up from its sources as teenage angst and toxic masculinity… into the actually dominant role model for rich men
I would buy a mic clip I think.
Empathy is inversely proportional to power.
In current situation but imagine a world where country leaders could show empathy? I only word it that way because some leaders appear to have it but there’s only so much they can do when the other elected reps decide it’s not worthwhile. I wonder so much why it’s basically a four letter word (so to say) among some groups.
Basically it’s the trait you want in leaders but doesn’t make much side money for people doing proper governing. What a shit system cause they all pour honey in our ears how things will be fantastic if just one group was blamed. Horeshit though.
There was a leader like that in Uruguay. The president took pubkic transportation to work and donated all the money he could. Such a great guy!
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How do you prove empathy?
