2026-09-19 09:35 UTC
@KatyElphinstone@mas.to Thank you for this discussion of empathy.
In my experience, many people who tell me they don't "feel" empathy (perhaps like they understand that others feel it) then go on to show what seems to be great compassion. Your thread has helped to clarify what may be happening here!
I have been thinking about empathy as a lack of imagination, but lack of deep thinking may broaden that thought or be another way to describe it.
And thank you for the references! I've found the first book in my digital library.
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@KatyElphinstone@mas.to 2026-09-19 09:41
@Furthering@convo.casa I'm really glad you liked it! Sometimes I feel a bit odd sort of arguing 'against empathy' (although of course, it's not really like that... in fact, I've just thought of a new term based on others' comments here, a kind of autistic 'universal empathy') but I do love all of the reasoning and logic behind this stuff. Sometimes people think I'm cold, you see, because I go so 'big picture' and say things like 'it's just logistics'. So this is also a way to try to defend myself 😂