Understanding the mental states of others, their motives and assumptions, insofar as one can, doesn’t necessarily result in positive feelings towards them, or identification with them, or lead to a default forgiveness and willingness to excuse their behaviour. Simply put, if your “empathy” results in you being endlessly forgiving, endlessly accommodating, over and over again, then you’re almost certainly doing it wrong.
Or not doing it at all.
Today’s Left are Communists.
Communists will say or do anything to defeat anyone who gets in their way. The Communists have tactics and strategies that have worked for decades. They have no empathy. That is a ruse. Did Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot or the leaders of North Korea have empathy? No, just ruthlessness to subjugate their own people.
Read “The Black Book of Communism” – 700 pages of Communists murdering 100,000,000 people in the 20th century in country after country. It is written by Europeans many of whom lived under the boot heel of the Communists.
Yes, thank you. I was just going to make this comment, and you have saved me the trouble.
For the Left, “empathy” and “forgiveness” are weapons they seek to use against decent people. They do it by lying, cheating, stealing and murdering. Anybody think Epstein really killed himself?
So the next time a Leftist says: “Have no mercy?!” you know what to do. It is always a good day to punish evil, right?
Imposing punishment on those who violate and disrespect the rights, property and space of others is essential to maintaining civilized society. Those who dismiss these simple sanctions as unnecessary have not yet been sufficiently violated by criminals.
Liberalism is incompatible with civilization.
I am (faintly) encouraged by seeing (a few) people starting to stand up to #BlubberDouggie and say CASTLE DOCTRINE in public lately.
Castle Doctrine is a legal theory that basically affirms that a man’s home is -his- castle, and he may use whatever force -he- considers necessary to defend it from invaders. It forbids the state from second-guessing the actions of a home defender after the fact.
We really need that here in Ontario.
Now, a lot of people use the weasel words “Reasonable Force” here, but that is not the doctrine. “Reasonable” means that an armchair quarterback will decide, in the comfort of their office with a coffee and their feet up, reading a police report taken after the fact, if you behaved “reasonably” at 2AM when armed men kicked in your front door. That’s why we have the obscene situation that we are faced with now.
“Reasonable” means that you are a slave, and -they- will decide how you should act. Okay? Let’s not sugar coat things.