What is empathy? Where does it come from? Why do we have it?

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I know that some of it comes from social norms and what we're told n all dat.

But some of it is natural.

Like when I beat someone up for bullying me in school I know it was the right decision and I have no regrets but then every now and then I think back to it and feel bad. But physically. Like my heart physically hurts when I think about it until I remember all the stuff they did to me.

It's weird.

And also being around old people makes me feel like that too. The older you are the nicer and more empathetic you are because youve been around less and less propaganda to demoralise you the older you are.

So when I'm around old ppl cuz they are so much nicer I get sadness in me and feel my heart physically ache because no one my age can compare to how nice they are and are devils compared to them, even me.

Like when Ur around someone nice it makes u realise how bad the ppl around u are cuz u subconsciously compare them to eachother n all dat u get me.

Us zoomers are on a different level to boomers. Zoomers are fucking evil devils.

Ye u could say boomers are bad cuz they hate blacks and immigrants but that's only cuz of propaganda. Propaganda is to make someone think a certain thing. Demoralisation is slightly different and is to take someone's morals away so they are unable think and come up with conclusions with logic and reason meaning they will believe what will have the best outcome for them. E.g. they support LGBT cuz they are spineless and know that they can't not support it otherwise most ppl will hate them whether it's the right logical thing to believe in or not

Zoomers are victims of mainly demoralisation and then propaganda

Boomers are victims of propaganda and then demoralisation to an extent but nowhere near as bad as zoomers
 
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If we didn’t have empathy caveman chad wouldn’t help his partner whose getting attacked by a mammoth
 
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from what I've seen, you only feel empathy for those who you think deserves it. See them as a stupid child rapist while justifying your actions you wont feel empathy for them.
 
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Boomers don't actually hate immigrants or minorities, they just think they do. Most people would interact with someone they think they hate in a very similar way to anyone else. It's very hard to genuinely hate someone unless you have a very strong reason to do so. That's how humans are.

Empathy helped people cooperate with each other and so aided in the process of group selection. Societies with higher levels of empathy and pro-group behaviors (take Western Europe as an example) were more successful, so it was evolutionary advantageous to develop those traits.
 
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Foids certainly don’t have empathy
 
I know that some of it comes from social norms and what we're told n all dat.

But some of it is natural.

Like when I beat someone up for bullying me in school I know it was the right decision and I have no regrets but then every now and then I think back to it and feel bad. But physically. Like my heart physically hurts when I think about it until I remember all the stuff they did to me.

It's weird.

And also being around old people makes me feel like that too. The older you are the nicer and more empathetic you are because youve been around less and less propaganda to demoralise you the older you are.

So when I'm around old ppl cuz they are so much nicer I get sadness in me and feel my heart physically ache because no one my age can compare to how nice they are and are devils compared to them, even me.

Like when Ur around someone nice it makes u realise how bad the ppl around u are cuz u subconsciously compare them to eachother n all dat u get me.

Us zoomers are on a different level to boomers. Zoomers are fucking evil devils.

Ye u could say boomers are bad cuz they hate blacks and immigrants but that's only cuz of propaganda. Propaganda is to make someone think a certain thing. Demoralisation is slightly different and is to take someone's morals away so they are unable think and come up with conclusions with logic and reason meaning they will believe what will have the best outcome for them. E.g. they support LGBT cuz they are spineless and know that they can't not support it otherwise most ppl will hate them whether it's the right logical thing to believe in or not

Zoomers are victims of mainly demoralisation and then propaganda

Boomers are victims of propaganda and then demoralisation to an extent but nowhere near as bad as zoomers
Human evolution.
 
from what I've seen, you only feel empathy for those who you think deserves it. See them as a stupid child rapist while justifying your actions you wont feel empathy for them.
Huh? U Talkin to me? Tf do u mean I'm so confused
 
Huh? U Talkin to me? Tf do u mean I'm so confused
Title was, "What is empathy? Where does it come from? Why do we have it?"
That's my answer on what is empathy. It's something you feel for those who you it's worthy of feeling.
 
me after reading catcher in the rye, brb getting sociopathic tendencies
 

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