Evil (lemmy.world)
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“In my work with the defendants [at the Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1949] I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” —psychologist Gustave Gilbert
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[–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

How would he ever have empathy? He has never suffered a day in his life. He probably can't even imagine what it's like

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