One of the defining traits of the left is empathy.
One of the defining traits of humanity is empathy.
If you’re not left you’re less than. I said it. I stand by it.
Humans are really good at empathizing. But we are also really good at delineating between in and out groups. It was crucial to protect your tribe over every other human. We now have a massive problem of entire countries or even the world being the “in-group” since we have enough resources for everyone to survive.
But those people wanting power are really good at exploiting that group mentality to cause groups to form in people’s minds. Then they use that delineation to withdrawn empathy from those new out groups. And when those delineations aren’t coherent among actual groups, it causes a lot of divisions that can be exploited.
If the human condition is to ever change in any meaningful way, the only solution is to modify the source code aka DNA. CRISPR could be a tool for good or a tool for evil, but at the end of the day it’s up to us how we use it. So how about this, instead of everyone following the immidiate instinct of the monkey mind and engineering their children to be perfect clones, why not simply focus on removing the dark triad personality from the genome? Easier said than done and I’m not an expert or even a novice but that seems like a logical first step looking at it from the view that like computers, we have a basic set of instructions programmed by default for survival. Prior to civilization it may have been advantageous, but today it’s a purely destructive force imo. It’s time for a firmware update.
One of the defining traits of the left is empathy.
One of the defining traits of humanity is empathy.
If you’re not left you’re less than. I said it. I stand by it.
Woaaaah there buddy
I appreciate you
Humans are really good at empathizing. But we are also really good at delineating between in and out groups. It was crucial to protect your tribe over every other human. We now have a massive problem of entire countries or even the world being the “in-group” since we have enough resources for everyone to survive.
But those people wanting power are really good at exploiting that group mentality to cause groups to form in people’s minds. Then they use that delineation to withdrawn empathy from those new out groups. And when those delineations aren’t coherent among actual groups, it causes a lot of divisions that can be exploited.
The average poor Republican would starve to make sure a “Welfare Queen” or “Tweeker” didn’t get a free meal.
If the human condition is to ever change in any meaningful way, the only solution is to modify the source code aka DNA. CRISPR could be a tool for good or a tool for evil, but at the end of the day it’s up to us how we use it. So how about this, instead of everyone following the immidiate instinct of the monkey mind and engineering their children to be perfect clones, why not simply focus on removing the dark triad personality from the genome? Easier said than done and I’m not an expert or even a novice but that seems like a logical first step looking at it from the view that like computers, we have a basic set of instructions programmed by default for survival. Prior to civilization it may have been advantageous, but today it’s a purely destructive force imo. It’s time for a firmware update.
Empathy-like behavior and brain activity has been observed in many animals. Make it less than those as well