«[…]We survived as species by being suspicious of things that we aren't familiar with. In order to be kind, we have to shut down that animal instinct and force our brain to travel a different pathway.
Empathy and compassion are evolved states of being. They require the mental capacity to step past our most primal urges.
This may be [surprising] because [in the last few years] our society has come to believe that weaponized cruelty is part of some well-thought-out master plan.»
«Cruelty is seem by some as an adroit cudgel to gain power. Empathy and kindness are considered weak.
[…When] someone's path through this world is marked with [cruel acts], they have failed the first test of an advanced society. They never forced their [brain] to evolve past its first instinct. They never forged new mental pathways to overcome their own instinctual fears. And so, their thinking and problem solving will lack the imagination and creativity that the kindest people have in spades.»
@juandesant
Corporate life... I once had a senior-senior manager describe himself as a nasty prick at work but a loving father at home. I bit my tongue. Once a (self-described) prick, always a prick, I thought.
Sidebar: He actually solicited me to go work for him later in a new position. Clearly self unaware.
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