• @fosforus
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    6 months ago

    Do you think the homeless need our empathy or do they need something else?

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      6 months ago

      I certainly think they will get nothing if people don’t have empathy for them.

      You’d be surprised by how far just caring can go. And by that, I mean genuinely, empathically, caring.

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        You’d be surprised by how far just caring can go. And by that, I mean genuinely, empathically, caring.

        Depends a lot on who is doing the caring. For instance, if a homeless person has infinite empathy towards another one, not a lot will happen. If a particurarily unskilled politician has a lot of empathy, what they do with it might be a net negative.

        So I kinda disagree with the sentiment here. Empathy alone does about as much as thoughts and prayers. Empathy isn’t even required in order to help a lot of people. You can be the driest, most temperature-room person on the planet and do good things.