As I watch the behavior of the leaders of the US and more often than not, the UK, I am reminded of the words of Hannah Arendt, someone who saw more barbarism than most, and who recognised its root causes.
@tompearce49
Humans are empathetic by nature, so the root cause is actually education,mass media,influential role models,...in the end the economic system that wants us to forget this part of our nature to function in the right way (normalizing profit, greed, ...) and in moments of the system's decay even chauvinism, racism, ...to save capitalism through justification of barbarism.
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@AllesInBewegung @tompearce49 if that were completely true we wouldn’t see barbarism in the animal kingdom. Chimps and great apes both show compassion and empathy but also have been seen ripping stray members from another group literally to pieces. We empathize with things like ourselves, we are taught to notice differences. The individuals that teach us to notice differences also teach us what those differences mean. It comes from the sources of the knowledge, not the knowledge.
@passwordsarehard4
And another good thing: Humans have compassion with other beings (not just pets;), it is a matter of consciousness, the necessary next step in human development.
@tompearce49