Because good human beings care about each other. If you don’t care about the children of Gaza, then you don’t care about that abused child in your family, your community. You lack empathy! People who have empathy were raised in families that supported, cared about each other, and it’s the way to treat others too.
“People who have empathy were raised in families that supported, cared about each other.”
Unfortunately, a too large percentage of the human population, 10 - 15%, are sociopaths, and some are psychopaths, who may very well have been raised in a loving family. They are just wired differently, and, as far as we know, there is no cure.
And, OTOH, some of the most caring people I’ve met were raised in an abusive family.
Just jogged me into my theory..if economists want two chickens in every pot, then both parents of children must work. Let us relegate them to childcare,, i think generations who spent little time w parents,loving nurturing because too little time left in the day,might grow up feeling a bit indifferent.
Not entirely in agreement with you that people with empathy are raised that way: I was adopted by relatives who were cold and narcissistic and suffered greatly because of my over-sensitivity and empathy. Only now as an adult with my own children can I see the strength it took for me to retain my difference from them and embrace what they saw as weakness.
Because good human beings care about each other. If you don’t care about the children of Gaza, then you don’t care about that abused child in your family, your community. You lack empathy! People who have empathy were raised in families that supported, cared about each other, and it’s the way to treat others too.
"Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat."
~Will Rogers
Today it's six people?
Probably.
“People who have empathy were raised in families that supported, cared about each other.”
Unfortunately, a too large percentage of the human population, 10 - 15%, are sociopaths, and some are psychopaths, who may very well have been raised in a loving family. They are just wired differently, and, as far as we know, there is no cure.
And, OTOH, some of the most caring people I’ve met were raised in an abusive family.
{...some of the most caring people I’ve met were raised in an abusive family...}
So there is hope, in spite of humanity being a global, highly abusive family🤞🤞🤞
Just jogged me into my theory..if economists want two chickens in every pot, then both parents of children must work. Let us relegate them to childcare,, i think generations who spent little time w parents,loving nurturing because too little time left in the day,might grow up feeling a bit indifferent.
Not entirely in agreement with you that people with empathy are raised that way: I was adopted by relatives who were cold and narcissistic and suffered greatly because of my over-sensitivity and empathy. Only now as an adult with my own children can I see the strength it took for me to retain my difference from them and embrace what they saw as weakness.