There is nothing wrong with your statement. There are things to admire at Muslim communities while also realizing they are bad in other aspects.
I see no contradiction there.
This is one thing I hate about whites in general, they're the only group with an outside bias. I wished we had more of a community like every single other group out there.
This is one thing I hate about whites in general, they're the only group with an outside bias.
It’s not exactly “outside bias” though it can be thought of that way.
It’s our capacity for empathy.
Which is a big reason our countries aren’t fucking dogshit hellholes of overwhelming crime and suffering (compared to the rest of the world atleast)
If we lost this capacity, or trained ourselves to suppress it, I don’t see many good things resulting from that at all. I certainly don’t see it as our “only salvation” or some kind of foregone conclusion.
There's a fundamental misunderstanding of empathy there. Empathy is an innate and instinctual feeling. It's not something that is lost just because you don't enslave yourself to coddling that feeling 100% of the time. Disgust at unhygienic waste is also an innate and instinctual feeling that overall serves a good purpose in society, but parents must learn to temporarily suppress it to clean their children's mess and surgeons need to learn to suppress it to an even greater degree to operate. Empirically, that doesn't make parents of surgeons suddenly morph into disgusting pigs rolling in filth in the rest of their life. Learning to control your emotions and disregard unhelpful instincts for rational goals is part of becoming a healthy, productive adult. People who refuse to do so are just manchildren and liabilities only capable of living under the protective umbrella of others, not shining examples of moral character. People should aspire be higher beings standing on the foundation of their feelings, not a worm crushed under them.
It's not that empathy is bad, having an innate high empathy is good for cooperative societies and history has already proven the overall competitive edge cooperative societies gain. But it's just a crude instinct that gives false positives sometimes. Saying doing what empathy tells you to is always good is like saying shooting people is always bad. That's a path that leads to being the useless idiot trying to stop someone from shooting at someone attempting murder and saving lives. Having high empathy and an adult's emotional control and sense of responsibility is what lead to much of the world having it's first taste in centuries of someone strong enough to depose the marauding warlords not becoming the next marauding warlord. Having high empathy and a child's emotional control and sense of responsibility is what degenerated that into marauding rapists giving the west it's first taste in centuries of the visceral reality of a low trust society.
but parents must learn to temporarily suppress it to clean their children's mess and surgeons need to learn to suppress it to an even greater degree to operate.
This is an example of logical thought overpowering emotions, something I advocate and was in fact the driving motivation behind posting my original comment in this thread, if that wasn’t clear
People should aspire be higher beings standing on the foundation of their feelings, not a worm crushed under them.
Yes, precisely.
Here is some ancient wisdom:
People belong where they are born. Creatures belong where they are fed.
The guy who wants all Muslims gone….wants whites to act more like Muslims….
Clear why people call this guy a shill
There is nothing wrong with your statement. There are things to admire at Muslim communities while also realizing they are bad in other aspects.
I see no contradiction there.
This is one thing I hate about whites in general, they're the only group with an outside bias. I wished we had more of a community like every single other group out there.
It’s not exactly “outside bias” though it can be thought of that way.
It’s our capacity for empathy.
Which is a big reason our countries aren’t fucking dogshit hellholes of overwhelming crime and suffering (compared to the rest of the world atleast)
If we lost this capacity, or trained ourselves to suppress it, I don’t see many good things resulting from that at all. I certainly don’t see it as our “only salvation” or some kind of foregone conclusion.
There's a fundamental misunderstanding of empathy there. Empathy is an innate and instinctual feeling. It's not something that is lost just because you don't enslave yourself to coddling that feeling 100% of the time. Disgust at unhygienic waste is also an innate and instinctual feeling that overall serves a good purpose in society, but parents must learn to temporarily suppress it to clean their children's mess and surgeons need to learn to suppress it to an even greater degree to operate. Empirically, that doesn't make parents of surgeons suddenly morph into disgusting pigs rolling in filth in the rest of their life. Learning to control your emotions and disregard unhelpful instincts for rational goals is part of becoming a healthy, productive adult. People who refuse to do so are just manchildren and liabilities only capable of living under the protective umbrella of others, not shining examples of moral character. People should aspire be higher beings standing on the foundation of their feelings, not a worm crushed under them.
It's not that empathy is bad, having an innate high empathy is good for cooperative societies and history has already proven the overall competitive edge cooperative societies gain. But it's just a crude instinct that gives false positives sometimes. Saying doing what empathy tells you to is always good is like saying shooting people is always bad. That's a path that leads to being the useless idiot trying to stop someone from shooting at someone attempting murder and saving lives. Having high empathy and an adult's emotional control and sense of responsibility is what lead to much of the world having it's first taste in centuries of someone strong enough to depose the marauding warlords not becoming the next marauding warlord. Having high empathy and a child's emotional control and sense of responsibility is what degenerated that into marauding rapists giving the west it's first taste in centuries of the visceral reality of a low trust society.
This is an example of logical thought overpowering emotions, something I advocate and was in fact the driving motivation behind posting my original comment in this thread, if that wasn’t clear
Yes, precisely.
Here is some ancient wisdom: