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16. "Empathy" is one word I REALLY want to take back.

Tue Jun 26, 2012, 09:54 PM

Jun 2012

It numbs my mind to try to understand why empathy is something bad. Empathy is a bad thing? Seriously? Why? Since when? I dunno. I just can't figure it. Makes no sense to me whatsoever, and it sure wasn't what I was taught that Jesus taught, when I was in Catholic school. It's like being told corporations are people. We're talking about something that's warm, giving, caring, gentle, non-aggressive, generous, open, and kind. Something that's human - you know, the creature with that sanctity of a soft-tissue beating heart to which you anti-choicers always cling with such rigid desperation and shrieking hysteria. Somehow all those things have been rendered subhuman, negative, disgusting, and just plain ol' evil.

But then again, just consider:

The people from the "takes one to know one" crowd who openly sneered at it, scoffed at it, and wiped their figurative muddy track shoes all over it were hideous excuses for human beings such as glenn beck and dick cheney.

Wow. Says it all right there. Exhibit A, may it please the court. We rest our case.

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