• Of the Air (cele/celes)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    Empathy is not required to be a good person. There are plenty of people without empathy that are good and/or do their best to be.

    Let’s end this idea that empathy is some pinnacle of being good please.

    Edit: We don’t agree with Musk that it’s a fundamental flaw to be clear. But the general idea it’s required to be and/or do good? Incorrect.

    • phlegmy@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      That’s an interesting idea.

      I would have thought those people had at least some amount of empathy if they can recognise what they’re doing is good or helpful to others.

      What do you think drives somebody with no empathy to be good?
      Public image? Fear of god?

      I feel like empathy is more of a scale rather than something you either have or don’t.
      People with the lowest amount of empathy would have the highest amount of narcissism.

      I think the vast majority of the population has the ability to empathise with others at some level. And when you’re not driven to be good for empathetic reasons, it’s probably for narcissistic reasons instead.