How dogs are treated is are a great measure of the empathy a human being -or a society- is capable of. We created this species from a predator, made them wholly dependent on us for their survival, and all we asked for in return was their trust and affection.
Fauci and his pet "scientists" have repeatedly failed this test in a most spectacular fashion.
If they cannot treat dogs properly, I would leave their justice to the wolves.
Implication in the quote that he thinks you didn't read past the headline. But I'm going to suggest he may be pitiable - it could be that he's subconsciously afraid to start re-evaluating his priors. Probably a common problem over there nowadays.
To make a classical reference, the allegory of the cave as written by Plato, describes a possibility. You've left the cave and seen the true world, returned to the cave to bring freedom and enlightenment, but the others in the cave lash out at you in response. Such things get compacted in various memes, like the red pill stuff.
Put another way, your father's probably happy or content with his worldview and he sees an unhappy person advocating for a different view (and part of his worldview is probably that all alternatives are lies), so he'll think that taking this view will remove his comforts. I add the parenthetical so you aren't misled into thinking your happiness would lure him out of the cave.
How dogs are treated is are a great measure of the empathy a human being -or a society- is capable of. We created this species from a predator, made them wholly dependent on us for their survival, and all we asked for in return was their trust and affection.
Fauci and his pet "scientists" have repeatedly failed this test in a most spectacular fashion.
If they cannot treat dogs properly, I would leave their justice to the wolves.
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Yeah, I view this, and people’s reaction to it, as an “empathy test”…
Which my own father just failed. And then used it to attack me for “believing what you read online, and lapping up sensationalized headlines”…
Fucking hell…
Implication in the quote that he thinks you didn't read past the headline. But I'm going to suggest he may be pitiable - it could be that he's subconsciously afraid to start re-evaluating his priors. Probably a common problem over there nowadays.
To make a classical reference, the allegory of the cave as written by Plato, describes a possibility. You've left the cave and seen the true world, returned to the cave to bring freedom and enlightenment, but the others in the cave lash out at you in response. Such things get compacted in various memes, like the red pill stuff.
Put another way, your father's probably happy or content with his worldview and he sees an unhappy person advocating for a different view (and part of his worldview is probably that all alternatives are lies), so he'll think that taking this view will remove his comforts. I add the parenthetical so you aren't misled into thinking your happiness would lure him out of the cave.