Adam Caudill@adam_caudill@infosec.exchange
Lately, I’ve been thinking about empathy - how easily it’s dismissed as weakness by those who mistake cruelty for strength. When someone mocks empathy, what they’re really rejecting is accountability for the harm they cause. Empathy isn’t softness; it’s the discipline of seeing the world through another’s eyes. It’s what allows societies to cooperate, to build trust, to choose care over indifference.
Duckbilled Plattypus.@pattykimura@beige.party
@adam_caudill@infosec.exchange
Empathy isn't blindness to harm, it isn't erasure of accountability, it isn't lack of judgment or discernment, it isn't forgiveness -- all things that are often wrongly conflated or mistaken for empathy, and so rejected as weakness.
Empathy is "I see you for who you are. And I recognize in you, the universe as it is, as I am. Though different, I recognize a shared feeling, and in this (moment) we are connected."
Empathy is a powerful moment of emotional human connection that should join and inform your intellectual understanding, not supplant it or be erased by it. This is where the ideal rare state of human wholeness, of thinking AND feeling at the same time is achieved or glimpsed.