Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works to ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.works · 27 days agoCould microplastics be eroding empathy in human brains?message-squaremessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up188arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up178arrow-down1message-squareCould microplastics be eroding empathy in human brains?Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works to ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.works · 27 days agomessage-square19fedilinkfile-text
It’s not a crazier idea than most of Kennedy’s. Someone should do a study. Or make one up, nobody checks anymore.
minus-squareWraithGear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·27 days agoThe stressors and demands on people a single generation separate are so vastly different that it would not work.
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·27 days agoWouldn’t work in a serious scientific study, no. You’re absolutely correct. But since we’re setting the bar of inquiry at Kennedy levels…? I’m just trying to put aside my despair for a few minutes.
minus-squareWraithGear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-227 days agoI am having to admit that human kindness and empathy only extends to one and theirs and to all others only competition and hate, that is the hallmark of humanity. The greatest trick ever performed was convincing anyone that it was ever not thus.
The stressors and demands on people a single generation separate are so vastly different that it would not work.
Wouldn’t work in a serious scientific study, no. You’re absolutely correct. But since we’re setting the bar of inquiry at Kennedy levels…?
I’m just trying to put aside my despair for a few minutes.
I am having to admit that human kindness and empathy only extends to one and theirs and to all others only competition and hate, that is the hallmark of humanity. The greatest trick ever performed was convincing anyone that it was ever not thus.