Is Empathy Dying? A Deep Dive Discussion | FriendZone
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The FriendZone | Make Friends ⋅ Fun Chill Active Chat ⋅ VC Social Gaming ⋅ Memes ⋅ Nitro Emojis ⋅ Anime community is hosting a thought-provoking discussion on the decline of empathy in modern society. Members are debating whether social media desensitization and the fear of being manipulated have made people more judgmental toward others. This thread explores the impact of online scrutiny on teens and the general loss of trust in digital interactions.
Tbh I mainly think this by seeing others discussing people online or even characters from shows. Like sometimes they literally start hating on normal people just trying their best, also I've seen it often happen against literal teens who r still learning how to navigate life. Even when they just talk abt smth else going on in the world, others will just completely ignore reasonings of why a person/ group does things as they do.
All we seem to do nowadays is just judge others and hate on them. What do y'all think?
I agree with you, though I think why people are losing empathy is because we are constantly being given information to the point we are desensitised to certain things.
Empathy disappeared when people saw that devils would just use it against them to get their way
True, social media is a part of it
Well what abt those (usually young) people who make mistakes as any normal human being, even ppl who didn't rly do anything wrong
They are called "collateral effect". I'm sure there are wolves that are really nice and welcoming to humans, but I won't go petting every wolf I see, nor waste my time to find out which one is bad or good, because it's not my responsability first and foremost.
Empathy works only in high trust societies
Devils ruined them
I didn't mention, those who may make a mistake/ could be naive etc with an audience watching them, and that audience chooses to interact with their own accord instead of just ignoring it and moving on, to put down that person
Judgement isn't necessary in those types of cases but they choose to be unempathetic instead
As I said, collateral damage. You're not going to guilt trip me in feeling bad and sad about poor innocents people making "mistakes". People are tired of guilt trips anyway, and hence tired of empathy when you only get st@bbed in the back by those that help you
There are lots of "people" that find your empathy a weakness, and they'll use it against you and other people, becuase they know you are too busy trying to appear good to others by helping everyone
I don't rly get what u mean by collateral damage when people actively come for these people, especially towards teens trying to find their footing
Well that does make sense in a more personal context, ppl love to exploit kindness and empathy so it's valid to not feel bad for them (I get that from experience)
Not only personal. It works greatly also with 99% of people
I've successfully stopped feeling any kind of empathy towards most people, and I've never been happier
At times they might not be trying to exploit anything, they're just there figuring out wtvr the hell they're doing but get judged for every single action and word
Also I meant the hot take in a much more social and societal concept, sometimes can connect with the so-called 'cancel culture', but also ppl tearing into others and it's shown even in fictional characters in shows
That's the thing, you only see empathy in those context. What about the suicid@l empathy that allows criminals to keep living and even be released?
Which can show to reflect reality
Cancel culture was simply one very specific side that tried to take control on society by weaponizing empathy too, amongst other feelings and things
I meant less with empathy in every context and more with normal people trying to do their own thing
Makes sense, it never rly seemed to justify cancelling others unless those specific people did some genuinely bad stuff
