johntrumpet on Nostr: Personally I think there's something else people mistake for empathy. An emotionless ...
Personally I think there's something else people mistake for empathy. An emotionless chain of logic, usually compounded with a wrong assumption or two, about the other person and their situation - often with artificial amounts of inferred emotion injected at the end of the process. Ever come across the type who are extremely angry on someone else's behalf, while having no skin in the game? I suspect it can be a form of virtue signal, conscious or otherwise; though I'm not sure how I'd be confident enough in that assessment to ever know for sure
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