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Grins

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7. Like this guy...?

Reply to StrictlyRockers (Original post)

Wed Oct 29, 2025, 07:54 PM

Oct 29

“I can't stand empathy. I think empathy is a made-up, New Age term that — it does a lot of damage, but it is very effective when it comes to politics.” – Charlie Kirk.

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"Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy." [View all] StrictlyRockers Oct 29 OP

precisely true normalynn Oct 29 #1

Musk is a profoundly fucked up human, as is Trump, Miller, Vought, Johnson, Tuberville, Comer, etc. Blues Heron Oct 29 #2

And compassion. Clouds Passing Oct 29 #3

I'll believe that any empathetic human can be turned into a monster if their lives depend on it. erronis Oct 29 #4

If Schopenhauer's observations are correct, compassion is the basis of morality pat_k Oct 29 #5

I think that evil is much larger than the absence of empathy. milestogo Oct 29 #6

Like this guy...? Grins Oct 29 #7

From 65 years ago, Codifer Oct 29 #8

Trump could shoot someone on 5th avenue. Initech Oct 29 #9

Lack of empathy may be a requisite for evil, but not the definition of it Martin Eden Oct 30 #10

Lack of empathy was praised by Kirk too. Jbraybarten Oct 30 #11

There's lack of empathy & compassionate, plus Active Cruelty electric_blue68 Oct 30 #12