All I can say as I saw the monologue on a CNN newscast. It was the longest segment uninterrupted by “This is . . . CNN” followed by a long, long commercial break that I have seen on CNN in the past 10 years.
Even CNN thought that showing Mr. Kimmel’s remarks, although there were some splice edits, was seriously important. I was amazed by the thoughtfulness of CNN in not breaking for a commercial.
No, Paul, CNN is a company that makes lots of money being completely against Trump. They will take any chance to bash him, including using a crying father who lashes out when he feels power-less. His argument was completely devoid of facts and the reality of health care in this country. CNN isn’t some ‘thoughtful’ news channel, it is a place where liberals go to take shots at Trump.
… using a crying father who lashes out when he feels power-less.
Huh? Mr. Kimmel has millions to spend for the best possible care in this case. If he feels so strongly about the subject, then he could afford to also help pay the expenses of some of the others with similar predicaments. Instead, he uses his child as a political prop and as a human shield against any criticism of his demands.
Kimmel’s pronunciamento was merely another example of the fallacious Argument from Pity, a favorite of “liberals,” and dumbed down even further by the stupider “liberals” as the Need=Right dogma. But there’s no arguing with religionists, especially theocrats.
If you think empathy is a problem, try thinking about a world in which there is no empathy.
Gee, can’t we be somewhere in between?
The problem as I see it is lack of empathy for those looted to pay for these “rights”, and willing blindness to how they’ll react. And then when they decline to continue producing for the machine they’re condemned as “hoarders” and “wreckers”.
JONAH GOLDBERG
Seems to think empathy is the problem, that there’s too much of it, I’d like to see far more of it around the world, but also more critical thinking.
Did you actually read what he wrote? His point is that empathy inhibits critical thinking. What is needed is sympathy, not empathy.
“empathy inhibits critical thinking”
I disagree, being a critical thinker does not mean you must have less empathy and vis versa, people actually exist that have plenty of both qualities, unfortunately plenty of people exist who also have little of either or both.
You continue to fail to understand the difference between sympathy and empathy.
No, sharing the feelings of others does not necessarily mean you’re compelled to act as they do in response to those feelings, for example, you can have two people suffer the same event and experience the same feelings and while one, using critical thinking, sets forth to change the situation for the positive, the other just wants to attribute blame and hit back at whomever they see as responsible.
Wasn’t one of the advantages of having capcoms be fellow astronauts who had trained for very similar missions was that they would feel empathy and thus facilitate effective communication? Generally, it didn’t inhibit critical thinking.
No, it would be so they would have sympathy.
Everyone in the control room (heck, every employee at NASA) feels sympathy for the astronauts. Only fellow astronauts who have been on similar missions can feel empathy, and sure enough, NASA picked astronauts as Capcoms.
All I can say as I saw the monologue on a CNN newscast. It was the longest segment uninterrupted by “This is . . . CNN” followed by a long, long commercial break that I have seen on CNN in the past 10 years.
Even CNN thought that showing Mr. Kimmel’s remarks, although there were some splice edits, was seriously important. I was amazed by the thoughtfulness of CNN in not breaking for a commercial.
No, Paul, CNN is a company that makes lots of money being completely against Trump. They will take any chance to bash him, including using a crying father who lashes out when he feels power-less. His argument was completely devoid of facts and the reality of health care in this country. CNN isn’t some ‘thoughtful’ news channel, it is a place where liberals go to take shots at Trump.
… using a crying father who lashes out when he feels power-less.
Huh? Mr. Kimmel has millions to spend for the best possible care in this case. If he feels so strongly about the subject, then he could afford to also help pay the expenses of some of the others with similar predicaments. Instead, he uses his child as a political prop and as a human shield against any criticism of his demands.
Kimmel’s pronunciamento was merely another example of the fallacious Argument from Pity, a favorite of “liberals,” and dumbed down even further by the stupider “liberals” as the Need=Right dogma. But there’s no arguing with religionists, especially theocrats.
If you think empathy is a problem, try thinking about a world in which there is no empathy.
Gee, can’t we be somewhere in between?
The problem as I see it is lack of empathy for those looted to pay for these “rights”, and willing blindness to how they’ll react. And then when they decline to continue producing for the machine they’re condemned as “hoarders” and “wreckers”.
JONAH GOLDBERG
Seems to think empathy is the problem, that there’s too much of it, I’d like to see far more of it around the world, but also more critical thinking.
Did you actually read what he wrote? His point is that empathy inhibits critical thinking. What is needed is sympathy, not empathy.
“empathy inhibits critical thinking”
I disagree, being a critical thinker does not mean you must have less empathy and vis versa, people actually exist that have plenty of both qualities, unfortunately plenty of people exist who also have little of either or both.
You continue to fail to understand the difference between sympathy and empathy.
No, sharing the feelings of others does not necessarily mean you’re compelled to act as they do in response to those feelings, for example, you can have two people suffer the same event and experience the same feelings and while one, using critical thinking, sets forth to change the situation for the positive, the other just wants to attribute blame and hit back at whomever they see as responsible.
Wasn’t one of the advantages of having capcoms be fellow astronauts who had trained for very similar missions was that they would feel empathy and thus facilitate effective communication? Generally, it didn’t inhibit critical thinking.
No, it would be so they would have sympathy.
Everyone in the control room (heck, every employee at NASA) feels sympathy for the astronauts. Only fellow astronauts who have been on similar missions can feel empathy, and sure enough, NASA picked astronauts as Capcoms.
Moreover, Story Musgrave disagrees with you. Look at what he said about being a capcom:
https://books.google.com/books?id=kFuf9pSnbSYC&pg=PA222&dq=capcoms+empathy&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjztsqQs97TAhUm5IMKHS_ZC0IQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=capcoms%20empathy&f=false
To the degree that’s true, it’s mitigated by the fact that astronauts tend to remain calm and rational both in flight and on the ground.
Hey, Rand, don’t spoil Andrew’s fun! He obviously LIKES the Argument from Pity.