Yes. Some people are beyond hope. Therefore we shouldn’t bother with empathy with all people. This is exactly how logic works. Yes.

But yes, indeed, some people are beyond hope. It’s why I won’t bother engaging with you further. (Guess where you just got categorized…)

You’re also conflating empathy with acquiescence.

Indeed. This is because he lacks actual empathy so doesn’t actually comprehend the very concept.

Yes. That’s exactly what everybody here is saying.

I resubmit: you lack all capacity to comprehend any viewpoint other than yours and will only damage anything you believe in as a result.

That “slippery slope” is absolutely vital to slither down if you want to formulate public policy.

If you don’t understand why people mistrust “big pharma” or “big government” or “big [sobriquet]” and reflexively dismiss anything that involves them, you cannot formulate public policy that will be effective.

Very rarely do people say “I’m going to dismiss centuries of scientific progress for this quack cure” without a reason. It’s maybe not a reason you agree with. It’s maybe not a reason reality agrees with. But you know what it might be? It might be a reason that traces back to how “big [sobriquet]” has acted toward such people in the past, often persistently over a long period of time, that has led to that breakdown in trust. In short: you (as in the beneficiaries of the status quo and “big [sobriquet]”, directly or indirectly) may be at least partially historically culpable in the opposition you now face.

Now I get it: accepting that you yourself are partially culpable for “irrational” opposition is a bitter elixir to swallow, but if you don’t take that first step toward understanding, you can’t take the second step to correcting the problem. And the problem will continue to fester and take root until, oh, I don’t know, something utterly fucking insane happens and a million of your fellow citizens die in a public health disaster because half your population doesn’t trust the very institutions that were needed to prevent said disaster.

So maybe you should learn to enjoy sliding down slippery slopes. Or, you know, die in the next easily-preventable pandemic. Like a million of your fellow citizens (assuming you’re American: insert your own numbers for your own country if not) did in the current one.

Not all people can be persuaded by “connected knowing” (not a big fan of this terminology), but many can be (over time).

NOBODY, however, who can’t be persuaded by “connected knowing” will be persuaded by “separate learning”, so I’m not sure what your point here is.

In human language: You are completely and absolutely devoid of any degree of empathy or compassion and thus your own worst enemy when it comes to persuading others. You are far more likely to damage any cause you espouse than to promulgate it.

Human enough for you? If you’d rather have it in binary bits, let me know which ISA you are programmed in and I’ll write the program that explains it to you.

Apparently you care enough to comment.

Oh, sorry, did any of your pearls fall? Thanks for your precious “engagement”.

I guess it’s scary for some people to participate in even a conversation about something new with an open mind without being condescending.

Irony, thy name is … well, just check the user name. It’s all you need.

I think you should probably instead know that it’s better to just donate directly to the aid agencies actually supplying the aid instead of letting a non-aid entity charity-wash themselves to get more money later.

Leftism acts like a cult.

Trump: [exists, has a cult-like following, is 100% right wing]

QAnon: [exists, is a literal cult, is 100% right wing]

Yeah, sure buddy. Whatever lets you look in the mirror without getting the urge to smash that face into a bloody pulp.

The GOP is not protecting children from anything. It never has done. The GOP is protecting itself by directing the rage and wrath of its base away from its own incompetence and malevolence so that its base doesn’t see it for what it is: a collection of billionaires and billionaire quislings worsening the conditions for non-billionaires at an accelerating pace.

Trans is just the latest in a long series of distractions that the conservative base keeps stupidly falling for. (My introduction to their bullshit was the crusade against Dungeons & Dragons and the closely-related Satanic Panic. Ever notice how both those aren’t things anymore? Did they really protect children against the harms of D&D given that D&D’s current edition is the best-selling version of that game in history? No, because it was never about protecting children.)

OK. You’re a dreamer!

😉

You expect people to read past the headline before responding?

You’re new to the Internet, right?

You’re smelling mostly the scatole. That’s the primary contributor to the smell of faeces.

Scatole is used in making perfumes, incidentally. And vanilla ice cream.

Not. Just. Your. Hands.

(It was a joke. The mandatory one whenever an etymology group is set up.)

I look forward to talking about insects!

I hate you so much right now.🤣

I’ll be honest, it’s a tie between which is the most annoying “feature” of this platform; animated profile icons, or unicode user display names.

Yeah! DAMN those people with names not in the Latin alphabet! DAMN THEM ALL TO HELL! How dare they not have real names written in a real alphabet!

He apologized. That’s amazing in the corporate world. This suggests to me that they could merely be disorganized rather than disrespectful. (Indeed hiring you may be a desperate attempt to lower the workload on key people.)

So go to the second interview, but don’t go in blind. Pay very careful attention to organizational issues. Pay very careful attention to employee demeanour and treatment. Be ready to ask some pointed questions. Remember that the job interview is two directional: you are interviewing them every bit as much as them interviewing you.