Empathy, Justice and Human Nature

Just a question I threw out to generate discussion.

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• Human
• Nature

[thor653]

I like your perspective on all this that's going down.

Awesome videos, keep 'em coming!!

[haggsbo]

@thor653

Thanks man...I really appreciate that.

[early2it]

I loved it...

The life of the seed is in itself, is your answer.

Is empathy of the nature of the divine or the biological is your question you are trying to answer...

thanks freind great video...

[haggsbo]

@early2it

Thanks for that.

[stevo728822]

Perhaps below empathy is recognition. By recognition I mean when we view a situation or a scene do we recognise it to be truthful or a decit. We need to recognize things correctly first before we can judge whether we can steer our judgement towards a conclusion such as empty or justice.

[haggsbo]

@stevo728822

good one...I was waiting for your input.

[MolecularSpirit]

Any innate ability has to be an evolutionary trait. Once again, this only contradicts intelligent design if you use your mind to create contradictions. I like to see the passing phase as an emergence into partnership after an extended period of domination. This is because we evolve through experience. Our rate of evolution increases with different factors, one of which is your emotional state. (see Greg Braden, Robert Anton Wilson,)

[MolecularSpirit]

I personally feel that all dualities are always two sides of the same thing. I would go as far as to say our inherent belief systems were constructed so as to force us into partisan(paradigm) thinking. This serves to create cognitive dissonance and ensures lack of communication. Speaking of which, it was our divorce from nature that began our suffering. If time is seen from a non-linear perspective than we are returning to the harmonic balance that we naturally separated from.

[imsailing2]

Those who have no empathy are usually called sociopaths & are huge problems for society. So I think empathy is a part of our nature. Empathy is very close to conscience. I have 4 kids. My kids showed empathy naturally & I did all I could to develop & encourage it. Kind of like having a raw talent; it's there, but take the kids to lessons & watch it develop. So it's part of our nature to begin with, but the nurturing determines whether that part of our nature is developed or squashed.

[Insightcollector]

I think empathy is part of human nature but our culture replaces real heart-felt empathy with a mind-trained empathy that shows concernment because that how we supposed to react but does not feel very much anymore. It's mainly due to the overwhelming amount of news we're bombarded with by the media and in order to protect yourself from these disturbing emotions, real empathy shuts down. The way I read other peoples energy and emotions I figured the shutdown takes place around the end of puberty.

[veritasfiles]

Empathy would have to respond to the concept of good & bad, moral & immoral. The moral law, I think is written on the heart of humanity, at least in its most basic sense.  Refining our ability to both recognize and follow such a law is why we have parents, families, communities, and institutions that help to pass on values. If it's just self interest, then nothing is actually wrong in an objective sense. More likely it's an evolved trait in that sense.

[stevo728822]

@haggsbo I'm currently examining the concepts of contrast and perspective. For example, if we see a starving child in our street we would probably feed that child, but if we see a starving child amongst thousands of starving children in Darfur we probably don't take action. And I feel it's because of the difference in contrast between two scenes.