I don’t think I disagree with any of this. Empathy was probably a poor word choice.
Although, maybe not? More and more, I’m not sure empathy, as we purport to understand it, even exists. At least not in statistically significant amounts within the general population.
What we think of as “empathy” almost always takes one of two forms:
virtue signaling, often times against the enemy
triggered by personally experiencing pain
The first is one is exactly the sort of consensus-based behavior you observe in women. The second is just the pain-motivated response we see in most creatures. Neither behavior really falls under our common definitions of empathy.
I don’t think I disagree with any of this. Empathy was probably a poor word choice.
Although, maybe not? More and more, I’m not sure empathy, as we purport to understand it, even exists. At least not in statistically significant amounts within the general population.
What we think of as “empathy” almost always takes one of two forms:
virtue signaling, often times against the enemy
triggered by personally experiencing pain
The first is one is exactly the sort of consensus-based behavior you observe in women. The second is just the pain-motivated response we see in most creatures. Neither behavior really falls under our common definitions of empathy.