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12/01/23

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Originally posted by beforethebounce: ↑

The Victorian man's mother obviously loves her son & so speaks in overview of his being a 'defender of freedom who was driven by empathy''.

Now, I do not consider taking up arms to kill another as an act of empathy. Empathy cannot be ascribed to one party over another. The true empathic, in a state of balance & inner quietude, understands both parties in a dispute. An empathic person does not take up arms. A soldier takes up arms to kill a person perceived to be a foe.

So this fellow went to the killing fields with an intent to harm another. That defines a warrior. Not an empathic.

One must be careful for falling in sentimentality to such rhetoric from a mother obviously in distress.

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Yep no way no how not empathy but possibly sympathy, a expression of sympathy does not need to care about right and wrong, it's the dirt poor relative just about everyone has.

The greater majority of all people are more bad than good.
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