OK, imagine somebody truly both empathetic toward and sympathetic to other people. Like, just imagine that such a person is real. They are very taken in by other people and their problems. They feel deep emotions with respect to other people’s struggles. They take a deep interest in strangers, foreigners. They are wide open to new ideas, new ideologies, foreign practices.
Even if you accept this on its own terms, even if you assume that such a person exists, and even if you assume that they have perfectly pure and good motives at all times, that person is obviously going to be much more likely than average to be taken in by bad ideas, fake stories, scams, harmful ideologies, malicious influences, and so on.
The idea that you’d be proud to be this kind of person and acknowledge none of these downsides is I think risible.
I distinctly remember, as a young teenager, the first time I stayed up all night on the internet, until I saw the morning sun peeking through my window.
Felt like I'd passed some barrier. The night was no longer real. Just a bunch of dark hours.
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Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number.
When the UN replied saying 6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end Famine for the year he never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for 44 Billion.
You struggle and suffer because people like him are allowed to exist, not because your neighbor is an immigrant.
Believing that "people wouldn't do crimes if their basic needs were met" while also believing that "greedy rich people are stealing from everyone" never registers to the people who say this shit as inherently contradictory.
Amazing how none of these maximum empathy people ever try to empathize with a middle class blue collar worker having a quarter of his earnings confiscated to pay for gay rights advocacy in Macedonia.