That’s the biggest reason a-holes tend to get their way in our world. Because good people rarely have the mentality that they need to put their foot down and control the menacing people. Compassion and empathy gone awry can lead to dire outcomes for compassionate and empathetic people.
Yep, apathy and an unwillingness to say something when you see something is what gets us a totalitarian dictatorship. People are too cowardly or too over-empathic towards people who wouldn’t think twice about robbing or killing them.
Go to any thread about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for example and watch people say things like “Whoa, let’s not dehumanize these Russians now,” essentially tacitly approving this sort of conduct. This sort of Buddha grade forgiveness approach doesn’t fucking work when the people you’re forgiving see that approach as weakness and exploit it.
That’s the biggest reason a-holes tend to get their way in our world. Because good people rarely have the mentality that they need to put their foot down and control the menacing people. Compassion and empathy gone awry can lead to dire outcomes for compassionate and empathetic people.
Yep, apathy and an unwillingness to say something when you see something is what gets us a totalitarian dictatorship. People are too cowardly or too over-empathic towards people who wouldn’t think twice about robbing or killing them.
Go to any thread about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for example and watch people say things like “Whoa, let’s not dehumanize these Russians now,” essentially tacitly approving this sort of conduct. This sort of Buddha grade forgiveness approach doesn’t fucking work when the people you’re forgiving see that approach as weakness and exploit it.