Yes, my claim is that the sensor has sensed.   Sure, more intelligence is 
always good.   Acquire it, act on it, but do it without emotion.

I remember after the first go around on Trump, Van Jones had a series where he 
went out into Trumpland and interviewed people.   It seemed to me he learned 
what he already knew.

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M.

I think of empathy as a sensor that makes me more likely to predict the 
behavior of an antagonist.  Think of martial arts techniques that involve 
giving your opponent what he wants.  So if your opponent wants to rush forward 
with a knife, you help him along in that project until he is lying flat on his 
face on the ground.  All action in conflict is based upon suppositions of what 
your opponent is up to.  Accurate empathy could be a life-saving technique.

N

Nicholas Thompson
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Clark University
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It is.  But in this case, not an acceptable solution.

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M
But isn’t empathy ALSO a tool for arriving at solutions.  I stupulate that it 
is not the ONLY such tool.
N

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Clark University
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It gives one the freedom to think outside the box on how to resolve the 
situation.

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But Marcus,

What does your lack of empathy GET you?

Nick

Nicholas Thompson
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Clark University
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Roger writes:

< These people weren't voting for rascism, misogyny, narcissism, 
authoritarianism, xenophobia, gimp shaming, science denialism, or all that 
other baggage, they were overlooking it for reasons. >

Many of those that could not work due to COVID restrictions are often in 
battleground or red states.   That’s the only way I can possibly begin to 
rationalize the 71 million.  To me, overlooking those things is unacceptable.   
It’s not useful to exercise any empathy for them.   They made a deal with the 
devil.   It should have been a win by 50 million, not 5 million.

Marcus
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