Most people just want a good life. If we stopped seeing each other as the enemies the world could be better.

  • Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
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    5 days ago

    One side has empathy. The other does not.

    You generalized as if everyone on the left has empathy and no one on the right does. That’s simply not true. Group differences like this are often larger within the group than between them. While it might be true that, on average, people on the right are less empathetic than those on the left, it’s neither fair nor accurate to imply that one side has empathy and the other doesn’t.

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      4 days ago

      Eh. Fits with what I see in politics, the folks voting for right winger, and my own experiences conversing with them IRL. I see no issue with making that assumption and then being pleasantly surprised the odd time it isn’t true.

      Maybe it’s a North America thing, tho. It’s quite possible that the euro flavor of right wing is a more empathetic group.