Discrimination without empathy is psychopathy.
Empathy without discrimination is psychosis.
A functioning society requires that humans care about each other, but the human brain is not capable of caring about everyone everywhere all of the time. Attempting to do so will drive a person insane. Professor Ted had a name for this phenomenon: Oversocialization.
Empathy without discrimination is psychosis.
A functioning society requires that humans care about each other, but the human brain is not capable of caring about everyone everywhere all of the time. Attempting to do so will drive a person insane. Professor Ted had a name for this phenomenon: Oversocialization.
One of the core things I've been working on lately is a framework that accepts that multiple contradictory things are true at almost all times, and how to navigate that fact.
It's a fact that empathy is a core human value, it's also a fact that you have to discriminate based on some sort of criteria because the universe has limited time and energy. You can't ignore either, and you can't collapse them into synthesis either, they're just two things that remain true. Of course there's more than 2 things that are true at once too, so you have to navigate all those things that are true. One of the strengths and weaknesses of various modernist frameworks is that they just pretend only one grand narrative is true, and it simplifies the world so it's easier to make decisions and unify behind those decisions, but will always result in terrible decisions because the world isn't simple.
It's a core theme on my new book, in fact.
It's a fact that empathy is a core human value, it's also a fact that you have to discriminate based on some sort of criteria because the universe has limited time and energy. You can't ignore either, and you can't collapse them into synthesis either, they're just two things that remain true. Of course there's more than 2 things that are true at once too, so you have to navigate all those things that are true. One of the strengths and weaknesses of various modernist frameworks is that they just pretend only one grand narrative is true, and it simplifies the world so it's easier to make decisions and unify behind those decisions, but will always result in terrible decisions because the world isn't simple.
It's a core theme on my new book, in fact.
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