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RE: Tactical Empathy: Why You Should Care About Others’ Problems

in #agorism9 years ago

We should try to find a way to care about the problems and concerns of others, even if we believe those problems don’t affect us.

Yes, I am my brother's keeper. It is so easy to be focused on our own problems to the exclusion of the critical needs of other people. What I have noticed in my few years on planet earth is that quite often we collectively see problems through our own set of eyeglasses. Doesn't matter what the range of differences is as some differences overlap resulting in ad hoc alliances unplanned and not repeated. I do agree that indifference to a problem can lead to a bigger problem. I once heard a man mention how "they" came for the Catholics, Jews, Disabled and he did nothing to stop them ( they ) and then when they came for him there was no one left to offer him help. A short lesson because you never know how personal indifference allows a problem to escalate. On the flip side, sometimes stating a simple word, NO, stops a problem from growing. Ron