(05-28-2020, 07:46 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(05-27-2020, 07:46 PM)mikesez Wrote: Stick around man.  Don't let the bastards get you down. Gets lonely around here when people with empathy keep running away in horror.

Empathy is not using emotion as evidence.

Empathy is defined in the dictionary as "the ability to understand and share the feelings of others". It is literally all about emotion.

We could go down the route of each sharing statistics that we feel validate our claims, and attacking each other over right wing hacks manipulating data or left wing biased MSM sites doing the same, but what's the point? Statistics can sing any song you want them to at the hands of a good composer.

Ultimately emotion, and the ability and willingness to actually listen to how people feel about this issue might actually help us to understand it better. Listen, read, seek out what the people who have to live with this situation have to say. I challenge you all to actually do that, and see if it might change how you see the subject in any way.

Here's an interesting video to start with, of course my liberal [BLEEP] bleeding heart has chosen a TED video presented in the form of poetry, because I'm nothing if not a cliche: 

https://www.ted.com/talks/clint_smith_ho...anguage=en

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