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 (2 children)

Remember when all the right wing “Christians” were spouting about the “sin of empathy?”

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Seriously?

    When?

    That should be on banners, identifying them as being the enemies of their Christian Holy Spirit.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago*

    God it was 6-8 months ago I think? Some MAGA pastor ass hat wrote a book about it saying empathy was a sin because it led people to not hate gay people basically and all the the fuck nuggets picked it up

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