JA Westenberg

The empathy gap isn't that we can't understand others' suffering. We're great at that - for strangers online.

The gap is we'll write 2000-word threads about injustice abroad and can't remember our roommate mentioned their mom was sick.

Scale broke our moral intuitions etc.

Mar 29 at 12:58amTypefully
Show threadGinevraCat6d ago
@Daojoan @ShaulaEvans I think this is 100% fixable on a person by person level.
Show threadtwoprops6d ago
@Daojoan
> Scale broke our moral intuitions etc.
"...simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions..." --Kurt Vonnegut