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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[–] -2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There should be mandatory psychological testing, and everyone without empathy can be removed from civil society. Let them live together in a faraway land. Antarctica, maybe.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Deport the people you don't like? What's wrong with therapy for damaged people?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    It was more a commentary on the use of one idea being used to castigate a huge group of people (those without empathy), which could be applied to ... 'illegal immigrants', and the atrocious things that's led to via ICE (victims being both immigrants, and citizens).

    Guess I should've used the /s

    That being said, fuck nazis. Ship them all to Mercury.

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