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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[–] 10 points 9 months ago

well that's the thing innit. empathy implies the ability to feel and connect to another person regardless of shared experience.

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